• March 21st, 2013

    Tableau Updates Its Data Visualization Software And Unfortunately It’s Their Biggest Product News Of The Year

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    Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company’s latest release and what they say is their most exciting news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The Tableau software is robust, which should be expected from this world-class data visualization company. → Read More

    January 21st, 2013

    Big Data And SaaS Will Become Relevant For Small Businesses In 2013

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    Editor’s note: Chris Luo is VP of Marketing at FiveStars. Previously, he ran small business marketing at Facebook and acquisition marketing in Asia-Pacific for Google AdWords.

    Over the past few years, most of us who work at mid to large-sized companies have seen our productivity multiply by the successful integration of big data and SaaS. But small businesses have not reaped the same benefits. → Read More

    November 1st, 2012

    Big Data Visualization Startup Lucky Sort Partners With StockTwits, Lets Investors Chart Stock Trends In Real-Time

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    Lucky Sort, the Portland-based visualization engine for making sense out of live data streams, is announcing its first partner: StockTwits, a social network for traders that lets users share stock-related information in real-time. Additionally, Howard Lindzon, StockTwits CEO and co-founder, has now also invested in Lucky Sort alongside a couple of other angels, who, combined, have added an extra… → Read More

    October 4th, 2012

    Accel Partners Big Data Fund Invests $4.3 Million In Trifacta

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    Today Trifacta, a company building a cross-platform interface for dealing with big data, announced that it received a $4.3 million investment from the Accel Partners Big Data Fund. The company also raised money from X/Seed Capital, Data Collective LLC, Dave Goldberg, Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman.

    Trifacta is a team of computer scientists with deep experience in data visualization… → Read More

    May 31st, 2012

    Datahero Wants To Democratize Data Visualization And Analysis, Raises $1M Round Led By Foundry Group

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    Data visualization isn’t easy, especially if your data is coming from a wide variety of sources. Datahero, which is launching its private alpha today, wants to make it easier for individuals, small companies and even enterprises to visualize and understand their data without having to worry about data formats and SQL queries. The company plans to opens its web-based service up to the public later… → Read More

    March 19th, 2012

    KISSmetrics Looks To Turn Your Customer Data Into An Interactive Infographic

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    KISSmetrics, an analytics startup that wants to help you boost your user acquisition and retention rates by providing a more robust picture of how your customers are using your site, is today announcing “KISSmetrics Experiments.” A la Gmail Labs, Experiments enables KISSmetrics users to access and test out experimental new features and help decide whether they become lasting parts of the product. → Read More