dataZoa Orientation Tutorial
dataZoa is...
Your own Datacenter to:
- Access and monitor over 3 billion dynamic data series from public sites and other dataZoa publishers
- Upload, store and update your own data series
- Use this data to feed your own dynamically updating charts and tables
- Share data privately, e.g., by email address of recipient/subscriber
- Share data publicly, enabling this data and your site to be found by search engines
- Embed your charts and tables into your web site, blog or intranet
- Create and share dZBoards - private or public data dashboards viewable on iPhone, iPad, Android or PCs
- Follow dataZoa tables and charts you find around the web in your own dataZoa account
1. Connecting to Public Data Series
dataZoa's unique dZ-Dot™ 
connects to over 3 billion public data series. For example...
DZ Dots and DZ Dot Menu at a Federal Reserve Site
DZ Dots at a BLS Data Page
DZ Dots with ECB Euro area economic and financial data
DZ Dots on BIS Locational Banking Statistics pages
DZ Dots at the OECD
Video:
Connecting to public data with the dZ-Dot
Video:
Pulling data from the EIA.gov with the dZ-Dot
2. Creating dataZoa tables and charts
Create embeddable tables and charts that update automatically with new data
Video:
Accessing public data then building a dataZoa table
(Table construction example starts a 6:15 minutes into this video.)
3. Creating and sharing dZBoards
Dynamically updating, one-touch dashboards for your iPhone, iPad, Android, PC and Mac
Video: Creating a dZBoard (6 minutes)
Video: In-Depth Webinar on creating dZBoards (39 minutes)
4. Following dataZoa tables and charts in your own account
Follow tables and charts from dataZoa publishers on your "Following..." tab
5. Connecting to Data from dataZoa Tables
Dynamic data series are directly accessible from dataZoa tables
Three easy ways to access dynamic data from dataZoa tables:
Hover over the grey DZ-Dot and use the menu
Directly drag primary series from tables into dataZoa (Video)
Follow all series in a dataZoa account
6. Get the dZ-Dot browser addon
Click here to get the dZ-Dot add-on for your browser
