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'''If you work with time-series data, dataZoa is unlike anything you have used before, and there are some startling things you should know...'''
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<div style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;">If you work with time series, dataZoa will change your life.</div>
 
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* ''If you work with open data from Web sources (like the UN, EIA, BLS, Kids Count, etc.):''
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** The dZ-Dot browser add-in lets you add series of interest to dataZoa with a single click.
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** Your series update automatically - we monitor all your sources for changes and apply them.
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* ''If you collect and maintain your own data series:''
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** You can upload your data to dataZoa and use it right alongside public sources.
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** As you make changes to your data, calculations and displays that depend on it change as well.
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* ''And more generally:''
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** Time-series are dataZoa's natural data type.  All the details about dates and frequencies are handled gracefully.
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** dataZoa is for end-users; no programming involved!
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** All series in dataZoa work together, regardless of source.
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** Changes flow through from end to end - all calculations, tables and charts stay up-to-date, for you and the people who depend on you.
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** Your work is seen exactly and only where you want it - from a single phone screen to a privileged list to the web at large.
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<div style="margin-left: 4em;">dataZoa is all about <i>connections</i>.  Data flows like water;</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 5em;">from real world sources</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 6em;">through calculations, tables, charts,</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 7em;">on to presentations, spreadsheets, even a live chart on your smartphone.</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 4em; margin-top: 1em;">and whenever the least thing changes, everything that should happen just happens, automatically.</div>
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<div class="imgGlyph24 imgConcept"></div> <div class="Gdib Gvat">In dataZoa, you work with open data from [[Data_Sources_by_Topic|<b><i>Web sources</i></b>]] (like the UN, EIA, BLS, Kids Count, etc.), <br>right along with [[Your_Data|<b><i>your own data</i></b>]] series, interchangeably.  And...</div>
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* All series are completely <b><i>[[Harmonized_Data|harmonized]]</i></b>, no matter the source
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* Web data comes in with <b><i>[[About_the_dZ-Dot|one click]]</i></b> <div class="imgGlyph16 imgDZDot"></div>, and it stays up-to-date <b><i>[[Automatic_Updates|automatically]]</i></b>.
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* As data changes, all downstream calculations and displays <b><i>[[Automatic_Updates#Displays|update automatically]]</i></b>, wherever they are used.
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<div class="imgGlyph24 imgConcept"></div> <div class="Gdib Gvat"><b><i>Which means...</i></b></div>
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* You <b>save all those hours</b> of data drudgery
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* You <b>never forget</b> a thing - your analyses, tables and charts stay in sync with the data behind them
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* Your work goes <b>right where you want it</b> - phone, Web, email, blogs, open or restricted
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* And <b>no programming</b> - if you can use a spreadsheet you can use dataZoa
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Latest revision as of 06:45, 17 May 2019

If you work with time series, dataZoa will change your life.

dataZoa is all about connections. Data flows like water;
from real world sources
through calculations, tables, charts,
on to presentations, spreadsheets, even a live chart on your smartphone.
and whenever the least thing changes, everything that should happen just happens, automatically.



In dataZoa, you work with open data from Web sources (like the UN, EIA, BLS, Kids Count, etc.),
right along with your own data series, interchangeably. And...



Which means...
  • You save all those hours of data drudgery
  • You never forget a thing - your analyses, tables and charts stay in sync with the data behind them
  • Your work goes right where you want it - phone, Web, email, blogs, open or restricted
  • And no programming - if you can use a spreadsheet you can use dataZoa