Quick Start Guide

By the end of this section you’ll have access to data of your interest, and a dashboard that allows you to analyze and navigate through structured and unstructured data.

Create an account

Begin by Creating an Account. Once you’ve logged in, check out some of the pre-built public dashboards in the folders on the homepage.

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Create your first dashboard

To create your own dashboard, click “Create a new Dashboard”.

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Connect to data

Connect to your database, upload a CSV or Excel file, or use one of our Data Connectors for easy access to a wealth of publicly available data. Add as many data source to your dashboard as needed.

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If you’re bringing your own data, specify which fields contain Textual, Temporal, or Geographical information for analysis and normalization. All other fields will be brought in as pivot points and additional visualizations.

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Note

See the Mapping Data guide for more details when uploading CSV or Excel Files

Create visualizations

Your dashboard will contain visualizations based on the type of data in your analysis by default. See the guide on Processing Data for information on how to interpret these visualizations. Every visualization is clickable, and clicking will apply a filter on your data based on your selection.

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Now you’re ready to Create Your Own Widgets using your other datapoints to home in on interesting segments within your data and discover topics and themes within your textual data.

Find meaningful insights

Let the visualizations guide your analysis. Click on areas of interest to drill-down into subsets of data

Click on the “Data” tab to view the original documents. If you’ve filtered down to a subset of your data in your dashboard, you’ll see only those documents.

For more information see the chapter on Analyzing Data.

Share your results

Make your dashboard public or share with colleagues.