[HN Gopher] Show HN: Dataherald (YC W21) - Tableau with ready-to...
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Show HN: Dataherald (YC W21) - Tableau with ready-to-use data
Author : saigal
Score : 10 points
Date : 2021-12-14 18:13 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| saigal wrote:
| Anuj here. My co-founder Amir (Aazo11) and I are building
| Dataherald (https://dataherald.com/). After our initial HN launch
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194440) last year,
| Dataherald is now used by ~100 news outlets nationwide. We are
| now opening up the product to anyone who wants to tell a story or
| conduct analysis that leverages data, with a Free Trial
| (https://dataherald.com/get-started) for the HN community.
|
| Our software makes it easy for anyone to find cleaned, ready-to-
| use data, and then create auto-updating visualizations from it.
| All in under 60 seconds. No code required. We're similar to your
| favorite data visualization tool (Tableau, Datawrapper, etc) if
| it already came with the data attached.
|
| I'm a non-technical founder, without a CS background. Over the
| last several years whenever I've wanted to use data to tell a
| story or conduct analysis that leverages data, I've had to rely
| on a data engineer to create data pipelines to my most heavily
| used data sources (in my case, Bureau of Labor Statistics). I
| always think that the data is going to be easy to access and
| update, but it never is. I'm constantly spending all my time
| getting the data in a usable format rather than actually doing
| any analysis. For a public dataset like BLS, haven't a bunch of
| people already done this? Why can't I just search and find it in
| normal human language? As an example, I was doing research on the
| potential employment impact of autonomous trucks on truck drivers
| (number of jobs lost etc.) and gave up while trying to decipher
| which BLS series ID I should be pulling.
|
| I'm not the only one. Journalists, for example, feel this pain
| whenever covering data-heavy topics like the coronavirus, the
| economy, and especially with data sources that update frequently
| like real estate prices. The problem is getting larger. There's
| an increasing amount of data in the world but most people can't
| use it to tell a story or make a decision. They lack the ability
| to build and maintain data pipelines.
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| With Dataherald (https://dataherald.com/), we've developed our
| own data pipeline engine that can be easily configured to extract
| data from online sources continually feeding data from public
| sources and private partners into our data warehouses. We create
| configurable templates (called Datafeeds) which users can select
| a few parameters for, and then have an auto-updating
| visualization. For example "Median home price change"
| (https://embed.dataherald.com/v3/viz/61b1132960a58f47321bcbc7) is
| a Datafeed, and the user can select the city and state. We are
| creating the Datafeeds and setting up the pipelines ourselves for
| now, but will be opening this up and looking for beta users.
|
| Dataherald streamlines data workflows, establishing a real-time
| data pipeline connection for users to the data sources they need
| to run their businesses or tell a story. Non-technical users are
| more autonomous and are able to diminish their dependency on
| other teams.
|
| Whether you are a marketer, a researcher, or a journalist,
| Dataherald helps you tell stories with data faster. We've created
| a Free Trial (https://dataherald.com/get-started) for the HN
| community, valid for sign ups before Christmas (Dec 25).
|
| One question that we always get that I will clarify now is that
| Dataherald specializes in helping you harness the power of data
| that is EXTERNAL to your organization, as opposed to your
| internal operational data. We'd love your feedback and
| suggestions.
|
| Best, Anuj
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