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With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand

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If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. Co-founder and CEO Zack Hendlin says they used Figma , a collaborative design program, as an inspiration when they created Zing Data. Zing Data is designed to let those users answer the basic questions themselves.

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

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Databases run the world, but database products are often some of the most mature and venerable software in the modern tech stack. Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database storage engine.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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In data analysis you want to look for “primary&# research, which means the person who initially gathered the data. But all of the data projections were so different so I decided to call some of the research companies and ask how they derived their data. And then I triangulate. Statistics aren’t evil.

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SourceLink + National League of Cities – Impacting Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities

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Our team’s experience in entrepreneurial data analysis and asset mapping helped both communities to organize and visualize their ecosystem of resources. “We

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Drive Better Decision-Making with Data Storytelling

Data-driven storytelling could be used to influence user actions, and ensure they understand what data matters the most. A good data story is formed by three components: Data analysis - This is the basis of a strong story and mastering the data is an essential part of the process.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

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He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. People like Paul Singh, Christine Tsai and my old pal Christen O’Brien are great. Sounds obvious. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class.

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Training Future Problem Solvers Through Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking

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Carlee Bishop, faculty director of the data analysis and communication master’s degree and professor of physics at Agnes Scott College, discusses her approach to integrating design thinking into human-centered design with the support of our Course & Program Grants.

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How to Build Data Experiences for End Users

Data literate: Users have a comfort level of working with, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data. Data aware: Users can combine past experiences, intuition, judgment, and qualitative inputs and data analysis to make decisions. Download the eBook to learn about How to Build Data Experiences for End Users.