Is it effective to develop a live programming environment from within another live programming environment? We have been using Clojure and Clerk, a notebook-like live programming environment, to build reports for our users. We are now in the process of using Clerk to build an interactive report builder.

In the paper and videos below, we share our initial progress on going from a report to a report builder UI. We show a demo in which we use our prototype to build a data transformation pipeline while seeing intermediate results. We also share questions we want to answer and directions we want to explore in the future.