dataZoa Delivers 7 Independent Areas of Benefit to Universitites:
- Unrestricted Analytic and Re-publishing Access for the entire University to over 3 Billion Public Data Series
- Dramatic Gains in Utility & Value Delivered to Data Users
- The Ability to Easily Weave Empirical Data into Lessons in Economics, Finance, Stock Prices, Banking, Real Estate Prices, Energy, Agriculture, Weather, Demographics, Crime, Citizen Well Being, Political Science, Health Economics and many, many more topics
- Delivers Valuable, Marketable Skills to Students who can in turn Deliver Immediate, Useful Results to Employers
- A Superior Approach to the Presentation & Dissemination of Data for University Data Centers, Blogs and Publications
- A Unique Marketing & Touch Vehicle for Those who may Affiliate with University via a Data Center, Blogs, Newsletters or Research - University-Branded Presence on iPhone/iPad, Android & PC Access
- Superior Economics - Lower Your Costs of Data, Reduce Data User Workload and Deliver Better and More Timely Results to All Users
Included Tools: dataZoa and DataZephyr
dataZoa:
- Instant, Free Drag-and-Drop Access to over 3 Billion Dynamically Updating Data Series
- A Unique, Direct-to-the-Desktop, Private Data Storing, Sharing and Publishing Tool for Owners, Users and Re-Publishers of Time Series Data
- A Private Data Transmission Tool to Instantly Send/Share Data among Colleagues, Research Staff and Research Grant Sources
- An End-User Friendly Tool to Enhance User Experience and Utility Derived from Public-Facing Statistics Sites
dataZoa's path-breaking and unique-in-the-world dZ-Dot™ browser add-on gives universal access to over 3 billion Data Series. If you've never seen the dZ-Dot in action,you might want to check out these quick 30 second videos below -- just click on the little blue TV Icon next to any of the data source examples listed below:
Finance Data
Stock Prices
Currencies
Mutual Funds
US Health Data
AGing Integrated Database (AGID) (Administration on Aging)
CDC Behavioral Risk Factors (MSA Level Data)
CDC BRFSS (State Trend Data)
HCUPnet State Trend Data (by DRG, IDC-9-CM and CCS)
Kids Count (State and local)
National Cancer Institute State Profiles (Trend Data)
Multi-Country Health Data:
OECD iLibrary (Key Health Tables - Cross-Country Comparisons & Trends)
UNAIDS Data - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
UNdata - World Health Organization - World Health Statistics & Millenium Development Goals
See dataZoa's Unique dZ-Dot™on St Louis FRED Site
and on
BLS Data Page,
the ECB Euro Area Site , and
the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
American Factfinder
(Visit the
dataZoa Data Index covering over 3 Billion data series)
Look inside a dataZoa account
Look inside a dataZoa 2.0 account
See the dataZoa ComputeCloud
Send a Chart via Email or SMS
See a live dataZoa Chart on a SmartPhone
Send a Full Tab via Email or SMS and other Tab Features
What you can do with any Embed on a Tab
View Dynamic Tables and Charts Created with dataZoa
DataZephyr:
- A Unique, Universal Access Tool for Accessing the same 3 Billion Free Time Series
- Chart any data series from your dataZoa account in DataZephyr
- A "Browser for Time Series"
- A "Spreadsheet for Time Series"
- A Tool for Creating Galleries of Downloadable Graphic Worksheets which Stay Current with the Data Source
See Live Stock Prices, Currencies and Mutual Funds in DataZephyr
See a DataZephyr Worksheet with Economic Calculations
See Over 700 Math, Stats and Data Transformation & Access Functions in DataZephyr-PRO Reference
Images of data from supported sites charted live in DataZephyr:
FRED Data Live in DataZephyr
ECB Data Live in DataZephyr
BIS Data Live in DataZephyr
BIS Table 3A -- all 200 Series Charted Live in DataZephyr
dataZoa gives each member of your campus
Their own private Datacenter to:
- Access and track any of over 3 Billion public data series they choose
- Send live, updating tables, charts and Tabs of data to the homescreen of smartphones and tablets
- Upload and store their own data series, including local data, research data, survey data, forecasts, and more
- The ability to define continuously updating calculations driven by new data postings from public or private sources
- Share their chosen data privately, e.g., by email address of recipient
- Share other data publicly, enabling this data to be found by search engines
- Create embeddable charts and tables to use within their personal web sites and blogs
- Create custom dashboards for public or private use - viewable on iPhone, iPad, Android Devices and PCs
- Utilize supported, always-current public data and internal data sources to feed their own charts, tables and analyses
Skills Acquisition
Market Sizing and Marketing & Service Unit Placements - Down to Zip Code level for Businesses
Market Sizing and Marketing & Service Unit Placements - Down to Census Tract level for Consumer Markets
Health Data - Procedure, DRG and Diagnosis Data, with Costs and Outcomes Stratified by Demographics
Site Selection for Factories, Call Centers and other facilities -- Using OES data from BLS
Track regional economies via the ecosystem of many University Data Centers publishing with dataZoa
Bank Competitive and Acquisition Analsysis with FFIEC Data -- Every US Bank depicted exquisite detail via dataZoa's FFEIC Data
Access Global Central Bank Data and National Stats Office Data to leverage emerging market investment strategies
Access Sec EDGAR Filings as Time Series as well as Stock Prices to leverage investment analyses
Analyze Energy Data from EIA- Pricing, Production, Markets by Each Major Energy Source, as well as Non-US Sources
Drill into Extensive Real Estate and Construction Data - Zillow, Case-Schiller, Building Permits and more
Examine Agriculture Price and Production Data from USDA
Access Weather Data for Every Station in the US from NOAA -- useful in Commodities market analyses
Conduct comparative analysis of educational systems using National Center for Education Statistics
Utilize US Patent Office Data to see which US and non-US companies are winning in securing patents
Analyze Crime trends using FBI UCR Crime Data, which impacts real estate assessments, investment decisions and business site selections
Analyze International Economies and Industries using dataZoa Sources like OECD, World Bank, UN Data, BIS, ECB, ASEAN Nations and more
The Library's Data Mission:
Libraries steer faculty and students to this same data
Carnegie-Mellon University Library Page featuring dataZoa
University of Florida Library Page featuring dataZoa
University of Virginia Libary Page featuring dataZoa
Syracuse University Library Page Featuring dataZoa
University of Arizona Library Page featuring dataZoa
Utah State University Library page featuring dataZoa
University of Oklahoma Library page featuring dataZoa
Wichita State University Library page featuring dataZoa
University of Arkansas Library page featuring dataZoa
Ball State University Library page featuring dataZoa
University of North Carolina page featuring dataZoa
University of Nevada, Las Vegas page featuring dataZoa
Texas A&M International University page featuring dataZoa
Texas State University page featuring dataZoa
University of Southern Mississippi page featuring dataZoa
Students and Faculty: Create your dataZoa account using your university email address
What is dataZoa?
dataZoa gives you instant free access to over 3 Billion data series on a wide array of topics: Economics, banking, finance, demographics, health, child well-being, environment, agriculture, energy and more.
You can grab data such as home prices by region, employment and occupational data, wage rates by city, education and poverty measures, health and disease metrics and spending, traffic through U.S. ports,
company 10-Ks and more, and delivers historical time series data in a standardized format right into your personal account. With one click, users can store reports in a personal sandbox, and the results
update automatically from the primary source. With dataZoa, users can build graphs, charts and tables, driven by live data, and these applications also auto-update and can be easily embedded in a website or blog.
Users can also upload their own data to their dataZoa account to combine it in displays or dashboards with data accessed from other sources.
A Growing Ecosystem of Data Publishers Adds to the Data Available via dataZoa
As Reported by the Wall Street Jounal (May 7, 2013):
"On Twitter you can follow this or that person and with dataZoa you can follow numbers"
dataZoa is Used In Public Finance Disclosure, and by Many State Government Agencies. For example,
See the Massachusetts Treasury Site
See New Jersey's Labor Market Information Site
dataZoa is Used to Publish Many University Economic Research and Forecast Datasets as well as Government Sites:
Some Examples:
Arkansas:
University of Arkansas - Center for Business & Economic Research
Arizona:
University of Arizona - Economic and Business Research Center
California:
University of the Pacific - Business Forecasting Center
Florida:
University of Florida - Bureau of Economic and Business Research
Georgia:
Georgia Southern University - Bureau of Business Research & Economic Development (BBRED)
Georgia:
Valdosta State University - Center for Business & Economic Research
Indiana:
Ball State University - Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER Data Center)
Kansas:
Wichita State University - Center for Economic Development and Business Research (CEDBR)
Kentucky:
Northern Kentucky University - Center for Economic Analysis and Development
Kentucky:
Western Kentucky University - Center for Applied Economics
Massachusetts:
Massachusetts State Treasury
Michigan:
Michigan State University - Center for Economic Analysis (CEA)
Michigan:
Oakland University - Southeastern Michigan Economic Data Center
Mississippi:
Mississippi Public Universities
Montana:
Montana State Government - Census & Economic Information Center
Nevada:
University of Nevada - Center for Business & Economic Research (CBER)
New Jersey:
New Jersey Department of Labor and State Data Center
New York:
Cornell Program on Applied Demographics (Trends)
Oklahoma:
University of Oklahoma - Price College of Business, Center for Economic and Management Research (CEMR)
Tennessee:
Tennessee State Data Center at the University of Tennessee - Center for Business & Economic Research
Texas:
Sam Houston State University Center for Business and Economic Development (CBED)
Texas:
Waco Chamber of Commerce
Vermont:
Vermont State Data Center at the University of Vermont
Wisconsin:
University of Wisconsin - Center for Economic Research
dataZoa is Used by a Growing List of Countries to Publish
National Statistics. For example:
Statistical Institute of Jamaica
Country of Suriname
(Suriname site is in Dutch, but tables are in Dutch and English -- Click any of the red links under "dataZoa Tabellen")
Video #1: Populating your dataZoa Account with your Chosen Data from U.S. Federal Sites
DZBoards - Create private or public dashboards for consulting clients, members of government or classroom use -- can be viewed on iPhone, Android, iPad and PC:
Examples of version 1.0 dZboards
SFO Airport Sample dZBoard
Automotive Industry dZBoard
California Energy dZBoard
(no password required)
Labor Market dZBoard
Requires Password: lobster
Video #2:
Creating a DZBoard in Minutes
=> the Unique dataZoa table -- use on Intranets, Websites and dZBoard Dashboards:
dataZoa tables can me made in seconds, and give publishers optional controls to enable their users to:
- Click on any data row to see a full historical chart
- Download all data behind the table
- Embed the table with a simple link
- Share via social networking tools
- Mirror the table as a live spreadsheet on user's desktop in EXCEL
- Drag and drop individual data series into the free DZ-Viewer for viewing and analysis
- Follow the table in a free end-user account
- Follow individual data series or all series in a free end-user account
Video #3:
dataZoa Tables Connect Directly with
Students and Members of the Business Community via DataZephyr and dataZoa
Using DataZephyr to Create
Galleries of Downloadable Worksheets
dataZoa Displays and a DataZephyr Worksheet Gallery -- Estonia Examples:
Some tables and charts via dataZoa
Gallery of DataZephyr Worksheets
Statistics Canada Samples In Situ:
Some tables and gallery page
Video #4:
Dragging and Dropping Data from FederalReserve.gov into DataZephyr and dataZoa
Video #5:
Dragging and Dropping Data from BLS and BEA into DataZephyr (with some background noise - apologies!)
Video #6:
Getting Data from Port of Long Beach into DataZephyr
Video #7:
Getting Data from the EIA.gov site into DataZephyr and dataZoa
Video #8:
Interplay Between dataZoa Tables and DataZephyr - Statistics Estonia
Video #9:Uploading Data from Spreadsheets into dataZoa
FBI UCR Data Videos:
Video #10: Brownsville Local Data
dataZoa Gives Access to over 3 Billion Data Series - Some Examples
U.S. and Select International Sources - Economic and Social Information
Private Data Sources - Economic and Social Information*:
*May require owner permission for republication
Sample of International Data Sources
U.S. Sources of Interest to Health Care Professionals and Health Economists:
Leading Market Technologies, Inc., Company Information Links:
Company Home Page
Key Company Milestones
Key Members of Management Team