ITA Software is proud to introduce Needle™, a revolutionary platform for acquiring, integrating, cleansing, analyzing and publishing data on the web. Using Needle through a web browser, without programmers or DBAs, your data team can easily:
- acquire data from multiple sources: A simple tagging process quickly imports structured data from complex websites, XML feeds, and spreadsheets into a unified database of your design.
- merge, deduplicate and cleanse: Needle uses intelligent semantics to help you find and merge variant forms of the same record. Your merges, edits and deletions persist even after the original data is refreshed from its source.
- build and publish custom data views: Use Needle's visual UI and powerful query language to configure exactly your desired view of the data, whether as a list, table, grid, or map. Then, with one click, publish the data for others to see, or export a feed of the clean data to your own local database.
Needle dramatically reduces the time, cost, and expertise needed to build and maintain comprehensive databases of practically anything. Read on to learn more about Needle's capabilities and our early adopters' success stories, or watch our tutorial video.
Needle is currently in a limited preview release. To apply to join the preview, please contact us.
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—Rob Harvilla, editor, Village Voice
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From the blog...
| Needle's "None" Data Format |
In Needle, the underlying data is a graph: "nodes" of data are linked to other data nodes. If you're used to thinking of your data as tables, either single spreadsheets or relational tables in a database, this can be an adjustment. After you're used to it, though, a graph representation will often feel more natural. In cases where it isn't, a table can still be straightforwardly represented as a graph. |
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| The Specialness of DS1/DS3 Special Access Rates |
Congraluations to Douglas Galbi, the first person to publish a public Needle domain without any direct involvement from us (other than flipping the "public" switch at the end)! See his introduction of the domain for details. If you aren't already familiar with the topic of Ad Hoc FCC filings and DS1/DS3 Special Access Rates, this dataset may or may not be your new personal obsession, but if you've got something you want to publish, sign up and let us know! |
| Needle and Van Gogh |
There are many sources of information on the art of famous artists, but rarely are you able to explore the data in an organized and useful way. Sources such as The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery have gathered together all the information about Van Gogh in one place, but it is still hard to navigate the works and find interesting visualizations within the website.
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