Sounds like a great tool, and I'll certainly check it out! I'm pretty buried in a rather massive ASP.NET project at work, without really having a developer background to start with myself – and anything I do is very time consuming and mostly gibberish to everyone, as there certainly aren't any other developers around most of the time. Quite stressful to be on your own little crazy island, where no one really knows what you're working on, but still got all sorts of (often extremely outlandish) expectations.
A fast and dirty way to display some data for internal use can certainly become very useful, and also could help with getting a few others more involved in the project in a meaningful way. Thanks for sharing, and for the nicely written introduction with examples and references!
I'll have to do a crash course on Python first, but it was already on the "todo list" anyhow – and I've heard it's supposed to be very fast and easy to learn compared to other languages. This will be an extra motivator to force it into my schedule, and bookmarked the post so I don't forget. Will try to throw something simple together with HiveSQL in the near future. 😛