With DroneDeploy’s Fieldscanner, pilots can create maps as they fly
Flying drones to inspect a farm, construction site, or any other venue from overhead can generate a huge amount of data. It takes time, though, for drone users to upload and turn this high-resolution...
View ArticleGoogle’s Data GIF Maker lets you easily make basic data GIFs
Google’s News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some halfway interesting visuals based...
View ArticleDataiku to enhance data tools with $28 million investment led by Battery...
Dataiku, a French startup that helps data analysts communicate with data scientists to build more meaningful data applications, announced a significant funding round today. The company scored a $28...
View ArticleAdobe wants to let you draw data visualizations by letting you draw data...
Every year at its MAX conference, Adobe shows off a couple of interesting prototypes that may or may net end up in one of its products. This year is no exception as the company highlighted 11 projects...
View ArticleTableau Updates Its Data Visualization Software And Unfortunately It’s Their...
Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company’s latest release and what they say is the biggest product news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The new Tableau software is robust,...
View ArticleZoomdata Raises $4.1M For Connecting, Streaming And Visually Showing A...
Zoomdata has raised $4.1 million for its data visualization platform that connects and analyzes historical and real-time data. The Series A round was led by Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP)...
View ArticleiPad App mem:o Is A Simple Data Visualization Tool For Design Lovers
Technology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak seeing every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs. mem:o...
View ArticleLineal Timeline Lets You Visualize History (Or The Future) On Your iPad
A new app for iPad called Lineal Timeline launched recently, offering a way to scroll back through historical events from centuries prior, as well as create your own personal timelines using notes and...
View ArticleSequoia-Backed Data Visualization App Roambi Unveils A Complete Redesign To...
Roambi, the app that makes it easy for companies to turn their data into interactive graphics, has released a major update of its analytics platform. The most obvious difference in Roambi Analytics 7,...
View ArticleChartio’s New Data Pipeline Makes Analyzing And Visualizing Data Easier
Chartio, a business intelligence service that lets you explore your data from a wide variety of sources, is launching a new service today that should make getting started with data analysis and...
View ArticleAlteryx Lands $60M To Boost Data Analytics App-Building Platform
Alteryx, a company that has been providing a way to build analytical apps from a variety data sources via a workflow interface, got a big boost in funding today, announcing a $60M Series B round. The...
View Article“Slack For Data” App Chartcube Launches On Desktop And iPhone
Collaborating on data is burdensome and often results in increasingly unwieldy email chains loaded with multiple PowerPoint and Excel attachments. A startup called Chartcube wants to make sharing and...
View ArticleLooker’s slick Slack integration inserts data directly into conversations
Looker, a data visualization and business intelligence startup announced a new component today that brings Looker data directly into Slack conversations without having to access the program separately....
View ArticleData visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
Reflect, a Portland, Oregon-based data visualization service, today announced that it has raised $2.5 million on an oversubscribed seed round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Other participants in this...
View ArticleNarrative Science can now describe your Tableau charts for you
Tableau Software‘s shares soared 13 percent on Tuesday following the news that it has appointed a new CEO and the announcement that the data analytics provider has partnered with Narrative Science, a...
View ArticleLooker expands beyond the confines of the application in its latest release
The application is where we traditionally tend to work with a piece of software, but with the increasing use of APIs, sometimes the application is just one way of interacting with the tool. Looker...
View ArticleGoogle open sources Embedding Projector to make high-dimensional data more...
This morning, Google announced that it was open sourcing its data visualization tool, Embedding Projector. The tool will help machine learning researchers to visualize data without having to install...
View ArticleIt’s called virtual “reality” for a reason
It all started with a fish tank. It was the 1990s, while I was in grad school working on a project for University of Michigan’s Advanced Technology Lab in their EE department. Someone at another...
View ArticleReflect drops public beta to power developer-first data visualization
Data visualization has been done — there are publicly traded, interactive, real-time and, heck, even artificially intelligent companies promising data visualization. But despite all the noise,...
View ArticleWith DroneDeploy’s Fieldscanner, pilots can create maps as they fly
Flying drones to inspect a farm, construction site, or any other venue from overhead can generate a huge amount of data. It takes time, though, for drone users to upload and turn this high-resolution...
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