March, 26 2010
Munich, Germany, March 2010 – Munich-based datogra GmbH introduces a new cost-free web service allowing users quick and easy access to over a billion current statistical data from Germany, Europe, USA and other parts of the world. Furthermore, DataDiver® as an easy to operate Flash®-based browser application offers powerful tools for interactive data visualisation and analysis. All graphics generated with DataDiver can be further processed on the desktop or exported as PDFs.
After a long period of development, datogra GmbH now announces DataDiver®. A cost-free and highly innovative Internet portal making it revolutionarily simple in the future to search for statistical data from official sources directly in the Internet browser just like using a search engine and to visualise the results with an extremely powerful and interactive built-in graphics engine. Upon mouse click, the search results can be turned into convincing and meaningful information graphics, time series, maps, choropleths or boxplots which can be interactively altered by graphical control elements like sliders to visualise trends and to analyse the data. Withal these powerful search and visualisation capabilities, DataDiver resorts to a sheer endless abundance of always up-to-date statistical data. In order to provide these data, datogra GmbH concluded redissemination agreements with official providers, like Eurostat, or the German Federal and State Statistical Offices. But also other providers of statistical data, like international agencies, institutes, or universities are centrally accessible with their data collected worldwide. In particular data from the U.S. covering areas like health, economy and labour market, crime statistics, elections, demography, purchase power and many more are available through DataDiver.
"The major innovation with DataDiver is that the user does not have to visit all the individual statistics portals directly with all their different operating concepts, nested tables and heterogeneous file formats in order find the statistical data he or she is looking for. Instead, DataDiver provides one single portal offering direct access to tons of current national and international statistical data from official sources." says Ralph Hirschel, leading developer of the DataDiver Technology and managing director of datogra GmbH. He explains further: "By collecting, preparing and regularly updating the data directly from their original sources and hosting them on our own server systems, we can offer DataDiver users extreme access speed as well as optimum ease of use and access comfort. The data can then be visualised and analysed directly in the browser using proven Flash technology, or they can be further processed as static graphics or dynamic SWF files, or even embedded somewhere else as a code snippet. PDF export is of course also possible.“
For the commercial use of DataDiver, datogra offers interesting business models for enterprises planning to use the DataDiver engine for analysing and visualising their own data, or to embed DataDiver capacity as a runtime version in their own web systems. As an additional distribution channel for chargeable premium data of general or economic interest, DataDiver is an interesting option, as well. For NGOs, non-profit organisations and smaller institutes datogra offers the DataDiver Exchange Program, where the providers can offer their data and use the DataDiver platform for distribution in return. For premium users who want to deploy DataDiver with a range of extra features, professional print and output capacities or other interesting add-ons, datogra offers a low-priced yearly subscription. The media business is another potential candidate for DataDiver what statistics and information graphics is concerned. For this purpose, datogra offers their individual and tailored Media Solutions.
The DataDiver start version will be launched on the Internet by datogra in the course of second quarter 2010.