Hi everyone,

I'm on a mission to find the best platform for a little open source project that I'm working on.

I'm looking to piece together a data visualisation platform for sharing (in the public domain) datasets related to sustainable finance.

The idea is that anyone who accesses the website would be able to access a frontend connected to the datasets and play around with the data (and download CSV pulls of what they come up with).

The frontend users of course would need to have only read-only permission to the master databases. On the backend, I'd manage the connections to those (etc).

I'm not sure (from a userflow perspective) which of these two pathways makes more sense:

-> Total "open access" - anyone can access the play with the data with the knowledge that whatever they create is ephemeral and will be overwritten as soon as somebody else "joins in" (or simultaneously!)

-> A middle ground. Anyone can register for a self-service account. The account is also read only versus the backing database but the users can save their own visualisations because ... it's their account. Ideally the account would be prepopulated with a set visualisation (such as a dashboard) that is "fixed" and can't be modified. The intention of this would be really as a teaser: here's what you can create. Get going!

My question: can either of these setups be implemented with reasonable ease?

Many thanks!