dataZoa Information

"Before adopting dataZoa, we were using Excel spreadsheets and converting them to html files to provide data content on our website. The process was cumbersome and made it difficult to keep data up-to-date. We did not have the resources to develop our own online data engine. Working with LMT is efficient. I always receive timely, thoughtful replies when I make requests or need help, even when my questions happen to have incredibly simple solutions. The dZ-Dot makes using data from outside sources incredibly easy, which makes dataZoa much more useful. The tools make it easy to take the information from the dZ-Dot downloads (or that we upload from our own data sources) and create tables and charts, and to allow users to download data or see it in charts (if we allow them to do so). The control over how the data is presented is also important to us. We have some proprietary housing data that we aren't allowed to show the history. As per agreement with the company providing the data to us, we reveal only the most recent month and the percent changes from the previous month and a year earlier. One of the great features is the automatic update. This feature saves us from having to find all the data for each series every month and updating the tables. The series provided through the dZ-Dot are updated automatically. We do update some of own specialized series manually, but this process is relatively easy, and the most current data are added to the tables and charts automatically when we update each series. The end result is a program that allows us to present our economic data in a format that is accessible to the public and saves us the time and tedium of recreating the same tables and charts every month."