ZoomData has raised another $17 million for its visualization technology that was built with stream processing and iPads in mind, but has since made the leap to historical data and desktops,… Read more »
IBM is getting into the freemium space, targeting individual business users with a new data analysis service called Watson Analytics. It helps users analyze data using natural language queries, and could… Read more »
I visualized a trove of data from MapLight about the issues on which internet companies are lobbying Congress. Here are the results of that, as well as links to the raw… Read more »
Tableau Software is taking the wraps off a new project called Elastic, which will bring the company’s style of simplified data analysis to tablet users. The goal is to let small… Read more »
Tableau Software beat Wall Street’s expectations and continued its skyrocketing revenue growth. Its $90.7 million second quarter represents 82 percent annual revenue growth. Read more »
Tableau Software was born of academic research, and as the company grows it’s building an R&D division to help build a pipeline of innovation. Jock Mackinlay, a Tableau VP who heads… Read more »
Twitter has released an analysis of activity on the social network during the overtime shootout period in last week’s World Cup match between Brazil and Chile. The pattern, which Twitter claims… Read more »
Dropbox is acquiring a data visualization startup called Parastructure, according to TechCrunch. It’s one of those deals where nobody is talking yet, but what little info is publicly available about Parastructure helps… Read more »
Elasticsearch, the company behind a very popular open source suite for indexing, searching and visualizing JSON documents, has raised a $70 million series C round of venture capital. Just more than… Read more »
Tableau Software (s data) has been on fire over the past couple years, but a big knock against the company has been that its popular analytics software isn’t available for the Mac operating… Read more »