dataZoa for University Libraries


As Reported by the Wall Street Journal
(May 7, 2013):

"On Twitter you can follow this or that person and with dataZoa you can follow numbers"

McKinsey: "Open data can help unlock $3 trillion to $5 trillion in economic value annually across seven sectors"
(Click through above link to read McKinsey article)

dataZoa Delivers 7 Independent Areas of Benefit to Universitites:
  1. Unrestricted Analytic and Re-publishing Access for the entire University to over 3 Billion Public Data Series
  2. Dramatic Gains in Utility & Value Delivered to Data Users
  3. 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
  4. Delivers Valuable, Marketable Skills to Students who can in turn Deliver Immediate, Useful Results to Employers
  5. A Superior Approach to the Presentation & Dissemination of Data for University Data Centers, Blogs and Publications
  6. 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
  7. 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:

American Factfinder (AFF)        BEA (all interactive tables)        BLS (all sections)
EIA (Oil & Gas) FBI Crime Stats SEC Edgar Filings (10-K)


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:

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:
    New: See two examples of dZBoards created with the 2.0 release:

          Multimedia dZBoard and
          Multi-Page dZBoard

          => dZBoards 2.0 has the ability to deliver dynamically updating electronic versions of rich statistical reports

    In detail: dZBoards 2.0 Webinar (39 minutes)



    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
    BLS (all sections incl. OES) BEA (all interactive tables) Housing Permits and Starts (US Census)
    St Louis FED (FRED) EIA (Oil & Gas) Weekly Unemployment Claims (DOL)
    US Census LEHD (QWI Online) Bank of England (Statistics) US Census Business & Industry (Database Search)
    OECD iLibrary (Key Tables) ECB (Statistical Data Warehouse) BIS (Statistics)
    World Bank Data FBI Uniform Crime Report County Business Patterns (US Census)
    TANF (Caseload & Applications) Census SAIPE Data (State, County & School Districts) Census SAHIE Data (State & County)
    Housing Vacancies & Homeownership (CPS/HVS - Census) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System IRS Migration (State & County)
    USDA Quickstats American Factfinder(Select Tables) SEC Edgar 10-Ks
    Chicago Fed Port of Long Beach Port of Los Angeles


    Private Data Sources - Economic and Social Information*:
    Kids Count (State level data)     Zillow (Local Market Indexes)         MSCI Market Indexes (Regional and Sector)
    Yahoo Finance Historical Price/Index Data Swiss Fund Data

    *May require owner permission for republication


    Sample of International Data Sources
    UNData (All sections) Swiss Federal Statistics (STAT-TAB) Swiss National Bank
    UN ECE Statistics Sweden Statistics Norway (StatBank)
    Statistics Ireland (StatBank) Statistics Iceland Statistics Estonia (Database)
    INSEE - France (Databases) Dansmark Nationalbank (Statistical Database) Deutsche Bundesbank (Statistics - All Time Series)
    Banque de France (Webstats) Stats Canada


    U.S. Sources of Interest to Health Care Professionals and Health Economists:
    CDC Behavioral Risk Factors (MSA Level Data) CDC BRFSS (State Trend Data) National Cancer Institute State Profiles (Trend Data)
    HCUPnet State Trend Data (by DRG, IDC-9-CM and CCS)


    Leading Market Technologies, Inc., Company Information Links:
    Company Home Page
    Key Company Milestones
    Key Members of Management Team