Datacopia.com
Initial release18 August 2012; 11 years ago (18 August 2012)
Stable release
20140625151647 / 6 May 2014; 9 years ago (6 May 2014)[1]
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.datacopia.com

Datacopia is a freemium tool that automatically generates charts and infographics from structured and unstructured data.[2]

Context

Representing data using charts is a difficult task from two perspectives. The first is that it is not always clear which chart type best represents a dataset.[3][4] The second, and more difficult of the two, is understanding what useful information even exists in the data before it can be visualized.[5]

Datacopia attempts to resolve these difficulties by automating both the data analysis and chart selection processes.

Technology

Datacopia is built in HTML5 and runs on any platform with a browser that supports the Html5 canvas element. It makes use of D3.js and the NVD3 library to provide its interactive graphics. It uses the Heroku PaaS stack.

Datacopia allows generated charts to be posted to social media sites and blogs.[6]

Datacopia offers an API[7] that allows developers to embed Datacopia functionality within their software and websites. This API is already used by the Qiqqa research management software to automatically turn tables of results in PDFs into charts.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Datacopia.com is launched!". The Datacopia Blog. 6 May 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  2. ^ "AlternativeTo: Datacopia".
  3. ^ Andrew Abela (2009-01-05). Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication that Drives Action. Archived from the original on 2014-04-26.
  4. ^ Helfman, Jonathan I.; Goldberg, Joseph H. (11–15 June 2007). Selecting the Best Graph Based on Data, Tasks, and User Roles (PDF). UPA 2007 Conference - Patterns: Blueprints for Usability. Usability Professionals' Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2008.
  5. ^ "Automatic Construction and Natural-Language Description of Nonparametric Regression Models". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. AAAI. 2014.
  6. ^ "Trading multiple strategies/instruments and max draw-downs". MooMoo Forex Trading. 15 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
  7. ^ "The oh-so-simple Datacopia API". Datacopia.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  8. ^ "Automatically making charts from boring tables of results in your PDFs using Datacopia.com". The Qiqqa blog. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017.
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