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Chartio Is Narrowing the Data Literacy Gap in Business
Posted on Sep 19, 2019Recently, Allen Hillery interviewed Matt David, the product lead at Chartio's Data School. Read to find out what he has to say about data literacy and the future of Business Intelligence. ...
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Sept 2019 Updates: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Posted on Sep 10, 2019It’s time for a summer review! For the past few quarters we’ve focused on two main themes: performance, and making Chartio more intuitive. Here are some of the biggest improvements we’ve released recently to support these goals.....
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Off the Charts: Startups, Data and Fundraising - an Interview with Amanda Kattan
Posted on Jun 20, 2019Amanda Kattan, a data and finance consultant with over a decade of investing and operating experience, shares her insights about what startups can do to set themselves up for data-driven success. She shows us how startups can get ahead with the right data stack, fundraising process, and the organizational metrics that best represent their business....
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Chat with Charts - Chartio now shares to Slack
Posted on Jun 12, 2019At Chartio, we’re always looking for ways to JOIN people ON data and today we’re happy to announce that now we’re joining people on data through Slack! Sharing and communication is vital to any data driven organization and now through Slack, it’s easier than ever to share data with the right people....
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Chartio Best Practice: User and Team Management
Posted on May 31, 2019User management in Chartio becomes increasingly important as the number of users grows in your Chartio account. Find out our best practices for team and user management....
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Zero Downtime and Chart Gorillas
Posted on May 09, 2019You may have noticed (or more likely no longer notice) that Chartio has had less and less downtime for deploys. It’s not that we’re not doing releases - we’re doing more than ever - but we’ve slowly been reducing the reasons for needing any downtime in the deploy. Find out more about our zero downtime....
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Pretty URLs and Chart Series Focus
Posted on Apr 25, 2019We’ve been releasing a lot of features lately and often just move on to the next one without fully writing about it. I wanted to take a second to highlight two fairly minor but quite nice features that came out of a few customer meetings recently. Learn about dashboard urls and chart series focus....
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Chartio Best Practice: Foreign Keys in Chartio
Posted on Mar 14, 2019Foreign keys are the way to use two different tables from the same schema, together. This post will highlight the three ways to set up foreign keys in Chartio. This can be done in the schema page of your data source’s settings, setting foreign keys in Visual SQL, or by using columns as foreign keys to join datasets in our data pipeline....
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Chartio Achieves AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency Status
Posted on Mar 07, 2019We are proud to announce that Chartio has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Digital Customer Experience Competency status. Find out what this means and how it aligns with our vision....
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Chartio Receives SOC2 Type II Attestation
Posted on Feb 28, 2019We are excited to announce today that we have completed our SOC 2 Type II audit....
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Chartio Best Practice: Dashboard Management
Posted on Feb 22, 2019As the number of your users and dashboards grows in Chartio, there are a few best practices that will help with the management of your Chartio account; both from a user and from a dashboard perspective. This is a brief overview of what great practices to follow....
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Chartio + Snowflake = Data for All in the Cloud
Posted on Feb 14, 2019We are happy to announce that we’ve expanded our strategic partnership with Snowflake, the only data warehouse built for the cloud, by joining the Snowflake Partner Connect program! Now Snowflake customers can access Chartio directly from within their data warehouse and get to insights from their data quicker than ever....
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Chartio Best Practice: How to Optimize Dashboard Performance
Posted on Jan 04, 2019This post will walk through some best practices in Chartio that will help you make sure you’re set up for great performance....
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Eliminating Duplicate Queries using Distributed Locking
Posted on Dec 20, 2018With our customers relying on over 100,000 dashboards and 2,000,000 charts in Chartio to run their business, query performance is something our engineering team is very serious about. Find out one of the ways we are reducing database load by eliminating duplicate queries....
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Our Automatic Cloud Data Stack Listed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the AWS Solution Space
Posted on Nov 11, 2018Chartio’s Automatic Cloud Data Stack has been recognized by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Data and Analytics solution and is part of the AWS Solution Space. Read more about the value of this turnkey solution for modern organizations that want quick access to data insights....
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Introducing Chartio Data Advisors
Posted on Oct 10, 2018Our mission at Chartio is to enable anyone in a company to explore and understand their data. With that in mind and based on a lot of customer feedback, we just made a big shift in how we handle Customer Success at Chartio and are introducing the Data Advisor role....
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Chartio Receives Top Awards in G2 Crowd’s Fall 2018 Indexes for Self-Service Business Intelligence
Posted on Sep 20, 2018We are excited to announce that Chartio has been ranked number 1 in all four G2 Crowd indices in G2 Crowd’s Fall 2018 Index Reports for Self-Service Business Intelligence. G2 Crowd is the leading business intelligence software review platform, where you can put the leading Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) tools in a head to head comparison....
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Big Improvements for Google BigQuery Analytics with Chartio
Posted on Sep 13, 2018Many of our customers use BigQuery as their data warehouse. Google’s BigQuery is an excellent option for many companies because it requires no infrastructure to manage, can store petabytes of data, and uses SQL as its query language. It also works great with Chartio! Here are some of our latest features and support for BigQuery in our Chartio product....
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Introducing Alerts
Posted on Aug 28, 2018Stay up-to-date without being taken away from your most important daily tasks. Read on about the launch of Chartio's new alerting feature....
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April 2018 Product Update
Posted on May 03, 2018Let's take a more intimate look into our product momentum. Continue reading to see some of the exciting features we launched in April....
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Why I Wrote Yet Another SQL Tutorial
Posted on Mar 08, 2018If you haven’t yet learned SQL, know someone who’s learning, or want to brush up in our practice areas, check out the new SQL Tutorial....
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What 90,000 Dashboards Tell Us About Dashboard Creation
Posted on Mar 01, 2018We analyzed 90,000 dashboards, and the findings showed interesting take-aways on dashboard creation, dashboard popularity and viewership....
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Chartio Achieves Fastest Implementation in G2 Crowd’s Winter 2018 Implementation Index
Posted on Feb 26, 2018We are excited to announce that we were awarded “Fastest Implementation” in G2 Crowd’s Winter 2018 Implementation Index for Self-Service Business Intelligence. Read more about what this award means for us and our customers....
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Building a Data Stack: Amazon Athena + Chartio
Posted on Feb 22, 2018We are excited to announce that Chartio supports Amazon Athena, an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Read more about the integration announcement in this blog post....
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Customer Awards and State of the Chartio
Posted on Feb 14, 2018Recently, we’ve hit notable milestones in our journey to JOIN people ON data. Read about our progress and what customer reviews mean to us....
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Calculate Annual Recurring Revenue with Salesforce Data
Posted on Feb 13, 2018Annual Recurring Revenue is an insightful metric for SaaS businesses to track the dollar amount that comes in every year for a customer’s annual contract. Learn how to use your Salesforce data in Chartio to calculate ARR....
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GDPR Statement
Posted on Dec 19, 2017On May 25th, 2018, The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will go into effect. Read about our commitment to full GDPR compliance....
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Our BART Ads and The Power of Informed Decision Making
Posted on Dec 07, 2017In September 2017, we ran ten different Ads that lined the entire Montgomery BART platform. Now, read about how all that data came together and how it helped one tourist couple plan out their entire day visiting San Francisco....
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Panoply, Stitch and Chartio Partner to Offer the World’s First Automatic Cloud Data Stack
Posted on Dec 05, 2017Panoply, Stitch and Chartio announces the world’s first Automatic Cloud Data Stack. The combined offering enables everyone to connect their cloud applications and databases to gain business insight by visualizing their data....
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Taking over the BART: Why and how we ran a metro advertising campaign in San Francisco
Posted on Nov 14, 2017Read about Chartio's ad campaign at a San Francisco BART station and examine whether an advertising campaign is right for your business....
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Pivoting a Table with Amazon Redshift or PostgreSQL
Posted on Nov 03, 2017A pivot table reorganizes or summarizes data in a relational table. Learn how to pivot a table with Amazon Redshift or PostgreSQL....
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Hi, I’m Your Data Evangelist
Posted on Oct 19, 2017Introducing our new Data Evangelist, Tim Miller. As the Data Evangelist, Tim is here to help organizations utilize the power of data....
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Earth Day 2017: Offsetting Our CO2 Emissions with Segment
Posted on Apr 21, 2017We've partnered with Segment and other companies to fully offset our CO2 emissions this Earth Day (April 22nd, 2017). You can do your part and donate to the Carbon Fund or any other charity and fully offset your CO2 emissions....
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A Checklist for Selecting a Self-Service BI Solution
Posted on Mar 30, 2017In this blog post, we’ll highlight a list of high-performing and leading vendors as analyzed by G2 Crowd reviews in their bi-annual report on the state of self-service Business Intelligence. Get your checklist in this blog post....
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How Meteor Uses Segment Sources and Chartio to Drive Growth
Posted on Sep 14, 2016Dan Ahmadi, Director of Growth at Meteor sat down with us and outlined how Meteor uses Segment Sources and Chartio to drive growth....
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Building a Data Stack: Stitch and Chartio
Posted on Aug 17, 2016We're announcing our partnership with Stitch, a powerful ETL service built for developers to consolidate data and ready it for analytics....
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Nth-name Selections in HubSpot Mailing Lists Using Chartio
Posted on Nov 24, 2015Learn how to do Nth-name selections in Hubspot mailing lists while using Chartio. This allows you to send a specific email campaign to only a portion of a Hublist list and allows you to email the remainder to the list as well....
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Chartio Meetup: User-Defined Functions in Amazon Redshift
Posted on Nov 17, 2015In a recent customer meetup, Tina Adams, Senior Product Managet at Amazon Redshift, discussed user-defined functions and shared best practices. Watch the on-demand video from the event and learn how to leverage UDFs....
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Producing and Analyzing Rich Data with PostgreSQL
Posted on Nov 03, 2015Learn best practices on how to produce and analyze rich data in PostgreSQL in a presentation with a Chartio data engineer at his presentation at Rich Data Summit 2015 here in San Francisco. Watch the on-demand video....
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How Chartio Simplifies the Lambda Architecture for Fast Real-Time Business Intelligence
Posted on Sep 03, 2015Learn how Chartio simplifies the Lambda Architecture, a popular data processing architecture, for faster data and business insights. Read this blog post to learn how to use layers and merge data right within Chartio....
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Data Munging Crowdsourced Information without SQL, Using Chartio's Data Stores
Posted on Aug 28, 2015Chartio and CrowdFlower joined forces to show how to crowdsource the information you need and analyze it in Chartio. Watch the on-demand video recap of the demonstration and dive deeper into the data and visualizations....
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Documenting Your Data Warehouse
Posted on Aug 19, 2015As part of good data governance, we suggest that users document their data warehouse. Get details on how to document our supported databases and how this documentation can be accessed via SQL. Learn more....
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How to Choose a BI Tool You're Going to Love
Posted on Jul 28, 2015Choosing a business intelligence solution doesn't have to be hard. Ask yourself these ten questions to help choose a tool you'll love....
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This Will Change the Way You Think about Planning for BI
Posted on Jul 09, 2015Deliver business intelligence faster with more control. Read here about the waterfall decision-making method to Business Intelligence planning....
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Enlist in Data Boot Camp, and Push Your Data to its Limits
Posted on May 20, 2015For users who want to use Chartio to push their data harder, we're introducing Data Boot Camp, an introduction to data analysis using Chartio. Enlist in Chartio's Data Boot Camp and push your data and skills to its limits....
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Chartio's New Data Stores Flip ETL on its Head
Posted on May 07, 2015Introducing Data Stores, a better way to store and transform data, making it possible to skip ETL and data warehousing. Data Stores simply ETL itself, using the Data Pipeline UI to rapidly layer in summary or rollup tables....
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Embed Chartio Dashboards in Your Applications
Posted on Feb 05, 2015We're announcing Chartio embedded dashboards: a solution for sharing data outside your company....
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Chartio and Segment: Enabling Access to Customer Behavior
Posted on Nov 05, 2014We're announcing our connection with Segment SQL. Work with customer event data from your applications, websites and marketing in Chartio....
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New Releases - Dashboard Title Bar and Variables Updates
Posted on Oct 29, 2014Read our news releases and improvements in the dashboard title bar, hidden variables, new input widget and dashboard variables in query mode....
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We've Improved CSV Imports in Chartio
Posted on Oct 16, 2014Chartio's CSV import tool was already easy to use, but we've made improvements to help you finish imports faster. Read more about the updates....
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Chartio Introduces Custom Dashboard Themes
Posted on Oct 02, 2014Make Chartio your own. With that, we've added a theme editor, enabling customers to create a theme that suits your company branding colors or personal preference. Read more about custom dashboard themes....
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New Releases - Dashboard Variables, Filter Rows, and More
Posted on Sep 25, 2014Read our new Chartio feature releases include improved global filters, a new step to the data pipeline, arranging charts and a shortcut to running queries....
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New Releases - Rotate Values, Single Value Indicator + More
Posted on Aug 26, 2014Chartio updates including the ability to rotate X-axis values and a new recent activity page....
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Introducing the Data Pipeline
Posted on Aug 19, 2014We're constantly working to improve Chartio. Today we've released our new architecture and interface for exploring and analyzing data in Chartio. It's called the Data Pipeline, enabling users to further analyze their data....
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New Releases - Export Chart as SVG, Row Totals, CSV Reports
Posted on Aug 12, 2014We're constantly working to improve Chartio. We're excited to announce improvements in CSV reports, exporting charts as SVGs and totals table setting....
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New Location Chart Types - Maps and Bubble Maps!
Posted on Aug 01, 2014To improve our customers analytical capabilities, Chartio offers multiple location chart types, including maps and bubble maps. ...
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View Your Favorite Dashboards and Activity Feed
Posted on Jun 25, 2014Chartio is launching a new view of your organization. With Chartio, you can now favorite dashboards for quick access and see team activity....
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Data Source Settings - New and Improved!
Posted on Jun 20, 2014A major focus for Chartio is helping to manage data connections. With that we've updated your data source settings page for better navigation. Continue reading to learn more about this data sources update in Chartio....
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Meet Your Personal Chartio Teammate
Posted on Jun 12, 2014Today, we're adding another layer of dedicated support for our customers by building assistance directly into the app with Chartio Teammates....
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Before You Quit Your Job to Become a Developer, Read This
Posted on May 14, 2014Before you quit your job to become a developer, go down this 6-point checklist. Our Chartio engineer Jess, details how she left her job at YouTube to spend six days a week, 11 hours a day, writing code. Read her story....
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Finnterning at Chartio
Posted on Apr 22, 2014Learn what it's like being a data finance intern at Chartio first-hand from our very first finntern....
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Chartio, Now with a Google Cloud SQL Connection
Posted on Mar 25, 2014We're thrilled to announce Chartio's connection with Google Cloud SQL. Cloud SQL is an excellent alternative for other databases because it allows you to spin up a database in Google's cloud without worrying about the backend....
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Timezone Support with UTC Offset
Posted on Mar 19, 2014We’re constantly working to improve Chartio. This week we added time zone...
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Little Opera and Chartio
Posted on Mar 17, 2014Chartio is donating our space to Little Opera for their first ever gala to raise money for Little Opera's Scholarship and Tuition Assistance fund....
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Google Analytics and Chartio
Posted on Mar 13, 2014Read about how to get the full power of your Google Analytics when you connect it to Chartio and blend data from different sources....
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Using MongoDB with Chartio
Posted on Feb 27, 2014Before now, there hasn't been a go-to analytical interface for MongoDB. You can now visualize your MongoDB data in Chartio, learn how today....
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Global Filter Updates
Posted on Feb 20, 2014New updates to global filters. We added the capability for dashboards with global filters to be shared, downloaded in PDF format and exported....
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New Dashboard Themes!
Posted on Feb 13, 2014Chartio gives you the ability to choose a dashboard theme to customize your charts. Outside of the default dashboard, there are seven themes to choose from. Choosing the right theme allows you to tell a better data story....
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Blending, Formulas, Services and Funding
Posted on Jan 22, 2014Chartio is now able to blend queries together from multiple data sources, a huge step in the right direction for improving data visualization....
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Graph it with a Bullet
Posted on Jan 08, 2014Bullet graphs are ideal for viewing a single value in some extra quantitative context and are an improved replacement for the gauge and meter charts. ...
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2014 Predictions for Business Intelligence
Posted on Jan 02, 2014We examine five predictions for Business Intelligence for the upcoming 2014 year. Continue reading to learn about what's in store for BI....
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Headers, Descriptions and Dividers for Dashboards
Posted on Dec 17, 2013We're always listening to your feedback. Read about our latest updates to dashboards that allows you to add headers, descriptions and dividers....
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AWS Re:Invent Is Here: Our Five Predictions
Posted on Nov 11, 2013Chartio is attending our second AWS Re:Invent this year. With that, here are our five predictions for this year's AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Read the blog post to read our predictions....
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1 Year Since Launch = 500,000 Charts Per Week
Posted on Nov 06, 2013A year after our public launch, users have made more than 500,000 charts per week. In this blog post, learn about our first year as Chartio....
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Adding Global Filters to Query Mode Charts
Posted on Oct 09, 2013A previous update gave users the ability to use the much-loved global filters in SQL Mode. ...
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New Table Functionality
Posted on Oct 08, 2013A Chartio update revealing the More Results button, improving performance due to the decreased load time....
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Chartio and Codame at DataWeek
Posted on Oct 02, 2013At DataWeek, join Dave Fowler, founder and CEO of Chartio, and a group of San Francisco startups to discuss the importance of understanding your data in your databases. Get the details in this blog post....
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New Charts and Settings
Posted on Sep 11, 2013Updates to Chartio mean new charts and new, powerful ways to customize your visualization....
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Farewell Intern Zach
Posted on Aug 16, 2013We say farewell to our intern Zach as he returns back to MIT for the fall semester. Over the course of the summer Zach worked on CSV support....
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Now Supporting Microsoft Azure and SQL Server
Posted on Aug 14, 2013Today, we're excited to announce the ability to directly connect your Microsoft Azure and SQL Sever into Chartio, giving you more access to data....
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CSV as a Data Source
Posted on Aug 01, 2013We have rolled out support for uploading Comma Separated Value (CSV) data files as a data source. Read more about the release in our blog post....
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Recent Chartio Improvements: 2013-W31
Posted on Jul 31, 2013Read about drastic and powerful changes made to Chartio a few years ago....
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Chartio Now Supports Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery
Posted on Jul 24, 2013Today we are incredibly excited to announce Chartio support for both popular data warehouses Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery. Read this blog post to learn more about the announcement....
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Recent Chartio Improvements
Posted on Jul 18, 2013We're constantly listening to your feedback. Read more about our recent improvements to Chartio including PostgreSQL and table joins....
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Flatter Foundations
Posted on May 08, 2013A visual update to Chartio which cleaned up the look of the app, strengthening the foundation. ...
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Mozilla Visualizes Network Performance in Chartio
Posted on Apr 30, 2013In this blog post, learn how Mozilla visualizes network performance in Chartio....
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Big Data Startup Day Meet Up
Posted on Apr 11, 2013Join Chartio in the 2013 Big Data Startup Day Meet Up within the Data Visualization Summit. We'll be joined by Twitter, Pinterest and Zipfian Academy....
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Chartio Takes Over The Big Apple
Posted on Mar 15, 2013Chartio is going to New York City next week for GigaOm's Structure Data conferencc and sponsoring a Structure Data lunch. Join us!...
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Why You Should Add Salesforce Data to Your Data Sources
Posted on Feb 21, 2013Connect your Salesforce database into Chartio and visualize all your sales and marketing data together. See and analyze all your data in real-time and drill down into your data to understand the raw data and also filter data....
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BigDataMN and Minnesota's Impressive Data Community
Posted on Feb 04, 2013A few weeks ago our CEO, Dave Fowler, had the opportunity to speak at a Data conference in Minnesota and was impressed with the data community. During the Minneanalytics conference, Dave shared charting best practices....
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A Chartio DeveloperWeek Party
Posted on Jan 29, 2013In honor of DeveloperWeek's Data, Analytics and Startup Day, we're hosting an event to celebrate. Come join us....
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Happy Data Innovation Day
Posted on Jan 24, 2013Today is the first annual data innovation day, and we'd like to wish you a happy innovation day. Go out and create something great....
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Download and Subscribe to Dashboards and Charts
Posted on Jan 21, 2013Read more about our new download and subscribe to dashboards and chart feature in Chartio....
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Design Matters
Posted on Jan 18, 2013Whether you're designing a dashboard or an idea that's pitched on Shark Tank, design matters. That's why at Chartio we always stress design....
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We Won A DeveloperWeek Award
Posted on Jan 17, 2013We're thrilled to announce that Chartio has won a DeveloperWeek award as the top innovator app analytics tool space....
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Dave Selected as Forbes 30 Under 30
Posted on Jan 10, 2013Our CEO and Founder, Dave Fowler, was named a Forbes 30 under 30 technology pioneer. Congratulations to all of those who were selected. Read more about this year's list of 30 under 30....
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Chartio - Start to Launch!
Posted on Nov 13, 2012Two and a half years ago, fueled by the pain and friction involved in trying to find insights from my data, I started writing the code for Chartio....
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Two New(ish) Data Sources - Google Analytics and Oracle
Posted on Jun 28, 2012We're constantly working to improve Chartio. We're excited to announce our data connections with Oracle and Google Analytics....
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Look & Feel - The Chartio Live Demo
Posted on Jun 27, 2012Since we're constantly iterating on Chartio, we no longer support live demo dashboards but you can check out a demo video to see Chartio in action....
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Major Chartio Updates!
Posted on Mar 12, 2012We’re constantly working to improve Chartio. This week we added a few major updates to Chartio including automatic joins in our Interactive Mode....
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Dave, Co-founder and CTO, Makes Forbes 30 Under 30 List!
Posted on Dec 19, 2011We're incredibly pleased to announce that Dave Fowler, Chartio's Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, has been selected as part of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30. Read the full list of honorees....
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New on Chartio: Permissioning
Posted on Nov 18, 2011We're announcing permissioning, a new feature that will give our customers more granular control over what their teammates can and can't do with Chartio....
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New Chartio Improvements: Speed and Stability
Posted on Sep 06, 2011Code improvements are constantly making Chartio more efficient and stable. ...
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The Decline of One-Size-Fits-All Business Intelligence
Posted on Sep 01, 2011We’re constantly working to improve Chartio. Read our new improvements under the hood including speed, design unification and better error handling....
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Making MySQL Queries Asynchronous in Tornado
Posted on Jun 10, 2011Learn how to make MySQL queries asynchronous in Tornado, a python web framework, in Chartio....
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The Non-Incubator Incubator: Founder's Den
Posted on Jun 08, 2011As members of the Founder's Den, we regularly pitch Chartio at their events. Get an inside scoop of what it's like to pitch in the Den....
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A Ridiculously Secure New Way to Connect to Chartio
Posted on May 11, 2011We re-engineered the way our customers connect their data to the Chartio. Read this post to learn the improvements we've made to Security....
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Chartio Just Got Faster: Introducing Local Caching
Posted on Apr 12, 2011Analytic queries tend to take a long time to run. So, we're excited to announce improvements on local caching. Now, every time you look at your charts, the data collected for that chart will be saved in your local browser....
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Pie Charts for Pie Day
Posted on Mar 14, 20113.14 is pi. March 14th is pi day. Pie charts are often regarded as the comic sans of data visualization, but on Pi Day, it's the star....
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New Features: Editable Table and Unix Timestamp Support
Posted on Jan 18, 2011Today, Chartio is adding a few new features, including editable table and column names and Unix timestamp support....
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New Feature: Date/Time Focus Charts
Posted on Jan 05, 2011We’re constantly working to improve Chartio. Read our news features for date/time focused charts including a date slider....
