Lorena Elebee over at the LA Times did a pretty cool data visualization that shows over the past 3 months that El Niño might just be cooking up a bit (which we like!) Click to check out all three months.
Tag: big data
Dataviz: Breaking Down the Internet of Things (IoT)
We love anything that Information is Beautiful puts out and this one takes the cake! They took the idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) and explained it in one lovely data visualization. Thanks guys!
It’s interactive so make sure you click around and see how buildings, cars, houses, people and everything relates to the Internet.
Dataviz: Tracking the Fastest Airlines
The amazing Nate Silver of the famous FiveThirtyEight dug into some big data deep to come up with some cool data visualization on fastest airlines by routes and best-performing airlines and airports. Go ahead, input your route and you’ll be amazed!
Dataviz: How Native America Was Taken Over
Thanks to the folks over at Flowingdata they pulled off another great one, mapping the invasion of America and the loss of Native American land. It’s pretty astonishing.
Dataviz: Tracking a Man’s Heartbeat During His Marriage Proposal
We always head over to Flowing Data to see what cool new data visualizations they’ve come up with or surfaced. This one is priceless. A Reddit user tracked his heart rate before and after his proposal while in Italy for 40 minutes. Wearing a heart rate belt you can see how he freaked out during the day and during the proposal, then calmed down and sat on a bench.
Dataviz: Mapping Relationships in the U.S.
The awesome folks over at Flowing Data are at it again with the mapping relationship status by geography in the U.S. You’ll get a jaw-dropping picture of where more single, married, divorced, widowed and separated people are by county! Who knew?
We put our request for maps into the Dasheroo dashboard generator crew, we’ll see what we get!
Download this infographic.
Small Business Saturday: How SMBs Use Data [Infographic]
We’re gearing up to shop small this Saturday, are you? Small Business Saturday helps SMB retailers to grow, and we’re 100% behind that! So this Saturday, the day after US Thanksgiving go on out and support local businesses and online small retailers.
Thanks to the fine folks over at Constant Contact we got this great infographic (since we’re into that geeky dataviz kind of stuff) and we were happy at the findings since it’s regarding how small businesses use data.
We like to see that:
- 64% use web analytics, like Google Analytics
- 66% say that data helped them choose which products to sell this holiday season
- 52% use social media analytics
- 49% of those who don’t use data say they don’t know where to begin
Obviously Dasheroo can help with that.
Business Dashboards You Can Use: Dasheroo Beta is LIVE!
What a ride since just March it has been for team Dasheroo! We released our Alpha version of Dasheroo back in July, we got some amazing feedback from all of our great users and now we launched beta! Here’s what we’ve got so far:
- Users – We’ve got oodles of worldwide Alpha users who we love very, very much. Tell your friends to sign up for Beta.
- Apps – We now have 8 apps we connect to: Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, Adwords, Salesforce, VerticalResponse, Mailchimp and Linkedin PLUS your own custom Insights, and a few utility Insights. Many, many more on the way.
Choose your Insights for your business dashboards!
- Customize by Size & Date Range! – We’ve got business dashboards that you can re-size to really customize the look and you can also get your data by customizable date range!
We’ve got custom date ranges and resizable Insights for your dashboards.
- Insight & Metric Details – Ever wonder what’s going on behind the metrics? Maybe your co-worker isn’t really sure what they’re looking at. Look no more, simply click on the metric you want to know more about and ta-da! All of your information is right there staring you in the face. You’ll get the definition of the metric, historical values with a rolling average, the specific account for the application you’re looking at, and when it was last updated.
More info on the metric in every Insight.
- Vote for your next app – We have a VOTE site where you can vote for your next new application we connect to and extract data from or an existing one with different data you’d like to see.
Vote for the next app you’d like to measure on your business dashboards.
- Peeps – We’ve got some amazing co-founders, John Hingley and James Ryan who are changing the way we all think about business dashboards and how people actually want to use them.
We love our leaders!
- Blog – We’ve got a killer blog where we get serious about how improve metrics you’re looking at on your Dasheroo dashboards and we try to find some great information for you daily. We also keep you up to date on what’s happening behind the scenes at Dasheroo every week so you know what we’re working on. We get not-so-serious with our noted “Who Charted?” series where we find some pretty funny-ass charts for your Sunday Funday.
You can’t get enough of our funny charts & graphs!
- Social Media – We eat our own dog food! We’ve got almost 10,000 Facebook Likes and 1,300 Twitter followers, we’re doing some great Linkedin posting and we’re on Pinterest with some pretty funny pix. The Dasheroo stickers really get around the whole wide world, don’t they? AND, we use Dasheroo to track all of that fun stuff.
Love what they do with our coveted stickers.
Now it’s on! The real release with a s*it-ton more apps and features is coming your way. And if you’re a beta user you’ll get it and you’ll get it all free!
Here We Go (Again)…
Nope, we’re not talking about Demi Lovato’s hit song! BTW she basically owns the first page of Google’s SERPS. Who would’ve thunk? Anyway, we’re talking about something much more fascinating. As in taking a cue straight from Jason Fried: ‘solve a problem YOU have’. And that’s why we’re starting Dasheroo. What’s the problem? Making sense out of the mountains of ‘big data’ out there, so you can focus on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) & metrics that really matter to your business. You want amazing business dashboards? You’re about to get them!
It’s a problem we’ve seen in about every company we’ve been involved with, and is usually (unsuccessfully) addressed by throwing bodies at it. At a recent tech company we consulted with, 9 people from the several departments took about 2 hours for each person just to update a Google doc with their KPIs for the weekly meeting. 18 people hours just to create a doc, not to mention make sense outta the info that will drive the business!
Painful. And expensive. And destructive to a business. So we’re out to solve it. Does it sound simple? Nope. Are others trying to solve this problem? For sure. But no one we’ve seen with the approach we have, which is coming soon.
So back to the title of this post. There are 5 of us kicking off our new company, Dasheroo. We’ve all worked together at some point in our careers, and none of us is under 35 (well, maybe one). We’ve all done the ‘start-up’ thing at least once. Actually if you add up the start-ups we’ve collectively been involved in, it’s well over a dozen. Most of us have families (we count both kids & dogs as family), like to eat good food and enjoy life. And work both smarter & harder. A semblance of balance. This is definitely not the Y-Combinator start-up formula, and you know what? That’s ok!
And I’ve gotta say, we have a dream team assembled to help make this real – front & back-end dev, product, marketing & business development, even branding & creative. Like I said, we’ve all been around the block and still feel that rush of ‘we’re really gonna do this!’
So here we go…again! We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime read our hopefully killer articles that will help your business grow, just like Dasheroo will.
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