April flew by at Graphiq and we wanted to share some of the highlights!
Product Update:
Interactive Calculators
Graphiq now offers more than 20 calculators across a variety of industries so that your readers can input their own data and receive helpful, actionable information in real-time — right within your article or story. Whether you write about finance or health, real estate or education, Graphiq has an interactive calculator you can embed to increase user engagement. Not only are you adding time on site, but you’re also providing a useful tool to your readers — and because calculators help provide personalized information to your users, they build brand affinity, too.
Learn more about our interactive calculators!
New Visualization Suites:
Visualization Update: Grammy Awards
Graphiq’s new Grammy Awards visualization suite adds 11 visualization templates to our knowledge graph, helping us visualize everything from how many awards Adele won in 2017 to how TV viewership for the Grammys has changed over time. This visualization suite was compiled using data from Grammy.com and Wikipedia.
Insights on the data from Sam, a Graphiq Knowledge Engineer who focuses on entertainment: Grammy data is highly dependent on the names and spellings of artists. “Simon & Garfunkel” must match with every instance of “Simon and Garfunkel” and similarly, “Jay Z” must match every instance of “Shawn Carter” (Jay Z’s real name). Through careful, intricate, and thorough data transformations, our Grammy data suite accounts for these discrepancies in order to display data as accurately as possible for bands’ and artists’ Grammy awards and nominations.
Learn more about our Grammy Awards visualizations.
Visualization Update: Rainfall
Graphiq’s newly updated WeatherDB Rainfall topic adds 10 new and updated visualization templates to our knowledge graph, helping us visualize everything from rainfall norms in Santa Barbara to year-to-date rainfall in Seattle.
Learn more about our rainfall visualizations.
Visualization Update: Smart Home Speakers
Interested in an Amazon Echo? Now you can compare it to all the smart speakers on the market and find out which one is best.
SpecOut’s new Smart Home Speakers topic and visualization suite adds 18 smart speakers and 5 new visualization templates to our knowledge graph, enabling us to deliver answers to consumers’ most sought-after questions on this exciting new product category.
Learn more about our smart home speaker visualizations.
Visualization Update: Preschools
Graphiq’s new Preschools topic and visualization suite add 9 visualization templates to our knowledge graph, helping us visualize everything from relative preschool program size to the proportion of students with learning disabilities.
Insights on the data from Chloe, a Graphiq Knowledge Engineer who focuses on education: Working with this data was challenging because there is no comprehensive dataset for preschools. To overcome the lack of a singularly comprehensive dataset, I combined and restructured three datasets for private preschools, public preschools, and head start preschools (head start program is a comprehensive early childhood education, health & nutrition program for low income families). We now have the first comprehensive table of preschool data encompassing private, public, and head start preschools. This topic is also the only preschool search engine that provides data beyond basic location, hours & tuition data.
Learn more about our preschools visualizations.
Visualization Update: Infrastructure
Graphiq’s new Infrastructure visualization suite adds 23 new vizzes to our knowledge graph, helping us visualize everything from the percent of the federal budget spent on infrastructure to highway conditions in each state to type of spending in infrastructure sector to the percent of each state’s budget spent on each infrastructure type.
Learn more about our infrastructure visualizations.
Visualization Update: Patent Holders
Graphiq’s new Patent Holders topic adds 20 new visualization templates to our knowledge graph, helping us observe and analyze patent and applications trends for approximately 90,000 organizations. This new visualization suite allows us to visualize things like patent growth rates, top inventors, inventor contributions worldwide, forward citations, list of “most valuable” patents, and more.
Learn more about our patent holders visualizations.
Visualization Update: Current Weather and Forecast
Graphiq’s Current Weather and Forecast topic adds approximately 30 new visualization templates to our knowledge graph, helping us visualize recent weather trends, daily forecasts, hour-by-hour forecasts, graphical forecasts, and current weather conditions. These visualizations are available for all cities, counties, and zip codes throughout the United States.
Insights on the data from Tim, a Graphiq Knowledge Engineer who specializes in weather: Forecasts and current weather are essential for any weather site, and now we finally have a product that can rival all the big players. One of the biggest challenges of this project was the sheer amount of data and update frequency of the data. We are covering ~64,000 locations, each with 7 days of hourly forecast data. That is close to 11,000,000 rows of data that could be updated as frequently as every hour. In addition, each of the location end points needs to be pinged individually to grab all the data. This is a much slower process than if all of the data was available in bulk, and some novel workarounds were required.
Learn more about our current weather and forecast visualizations.
Visualization Update: College Majors by School
Graphiq’s new College Majors by School visualization suite adds over 174,000 entities and 11 new visualization templates to our knowledge graph, allowing us to visualize everything from gender and race breakdowns for a major at a given school to how popular that major is at the school over time.
Learn more about our college majors by school visualizations.
Blog Posts:
Working with in-house graphics teams
Talented in-house graphics teams produce some of the most engaging content on the internet — think WashPo election charts and NYT interactive maps. But what if newsrooms could scale their graphics operations and produce an interactive asset for every single story?
Read the full post here!
How to add interactives to your content in 3 steps
Yes, you read that right — you can add interactive visualizations to your online content in three (very simple) steps! To watch our quick tutorial walking you through these steps, visit the Graphiq Help Center.
Read the full post here!
Graphiq vs. The Competition
At Graphiq, we work with publishing partners to ease their workload and provide data visualizations they might not otherwise have access to. How do we do it?
Read the full post here
How to use interactive visualizations to REALLY engage your audience
We conducted an internal study to assess the impact of visuals — both static and interactive — on reading behavior, and the results were astounding.
Read the full post here!
How to drive new revenue streams in 3 easy steps
Did you know that it could take less than a minute to implement a new revenue stream for your organization? With Graphiq Rev Share, you could earn direct revenue while increasing reader engagement and time on site.
Read the full post here!
Stay tuned for more updates and please let us know if you have any questions or feedback by reaching out to us via our live chat on Graphiq Search or by emailing sources@graphiq.com.
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