How to use “guest access” for Jute NRM
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to try Jute NRM. So you have two options:
1) Contact us and request an account and you’ll get free access for 30 days.
2) Use the “guest” account (instructions below) to get access to an open account.*
*Keep in mind, this account is public and anything you do in this account can be seen by other guest visitors.
Instructions for using the guest account:
1) Visit http://nrm1.jutenetworks.com
2) user name: ”guest@jutenetworks.com
password: “networks”
3) Open the “You Network” public demo
Video walkthrough of using the guest account:
Montana businesses networks — via implu
I recently came across implu (www.implu.com). It’s self-described as:
implu is an online tool for prospecting, networking and market research. No other site keeps you informed with daily news, custom searches and daily email alerts. No other site provides you with an executive’s business associations allowing you to network your way into new clients. No other site provides comprehensive company information on just one page.
Seems to provide a lot of interesting information by scraping the web. I pulled a CSV file from implu (and gave them big props for having an easy way to do that…) and uploaded into Jute NRM Prototype.
Nothing spectacular in the results, but it’s interesting. It would be much more interesting as a layer of data mixed with my personal data.
Montana Businesses — Whole Network
H&R Block Executives in Montana
Key Networks in Montana Zip Code 63141
What do you think?
Advanced Analytics & Business Network Visualization
Gartner offered up their top 10 list for strategic technologies in 2010. [read the full article on ZD NET]
Ranking in at #2 is “Advanced Analytics” which aren’t exactly defined, but are address in the quotation below. My perspective is that Jute is a form of Analytics–it’s analytics for your network of professional relationship. Jute helps you make better decisions with the data that you have by converting that data to information. That process of analysis and visualization is the hallmark of great analytics software of every stripe.
Here’s what ZD Net quoted:
On the analytics front, Gartner said in a presentation:
We have reached the point in the improvement of performance and costs that we can afford to perform analytics and simulation for each and every action taken in the business. Not only will data center systems be able to do this, but mobile devices will have access to data and enough capability to perform analytics themselves, potentially enabling use of optimization and simulation everywhere and every time. This can be viewed as a third step in supporting operational business decisions.
The rub: New technologies need to be created to search and organize unstructured content and data.
That’s right. And that’s what Jute offers–a solution to search and organize that unstructured data.
Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009 / 2010
Starting Point: data you can use in Jute
I was recently asked for a “Top 10″ list of data sets that might be used in a project with Jute. While there is no “one size fits all” of data sets, I thought it’d be good to compile a list of links that helps someone get started. Most projects end up combining 2-4 data sets, so it’s seldom that all of those can be identified ahead of time. It’s also important to remember that most organizations have not just an internal database, but email address books and social software accounts like LinkedIn–all of which are databases.
So, this list isn’t perfect and it isn’t complete–but it should be a good starting point.
Feel free to comment if you have any questions about a specific type of data set that is not listed here. I’ll get back to you…
Not-for-profit
Blackbaud’s ResearchPoint service culls together a variety of data points on individuals and helps you see not only there giving history, but also critical information like net worth.
Foundation Center Online A compiled list of grants and granting institutions.
NOZA Search Data pulled from across the web on major donors to non-profits, sorted by sector, location and a variety of other attributes.
Charity Navigator’s “Charities performing similar types of work” feature would be helpful on certain projects.
Guidestar A well known data provider for donors and non-profits.
Corporate / Investment
Dunn & Bradstreet / Hoovers The 800 lb gorilla of databases, D&B provides a huge range of data about companies, markets, industries and even individuals.
VentureDeal.com Tracks the deals that take place in the venture capital space around North America. Good balance of accuracy and economics at $25 / month.
The Director’s Database A database of corporate governance.
Dow Jones Factiva
Politics
FollowTheMoney.org (National Institute on Money in State Politics) Tracks political donations and money flowing through lobbyists in all 50 states. Allows users to see which lobbyist represents which clients. [API]
OpenSecrets.org Provides a variety of data points focused on exposing the role money plays in political influence. Available for personal use or for purchase. [API]
Data.gov As part of the Obama Administration’s plan to make government more transparent, they have created this site to open up unclassified government data. Currently, there’s only 597 data sets, but it grows every day. Hoping to find a history of the Toxic Release Inventory in American Somoa? Data.gov is for you…
LittleSis.org “We bring transparency to influential social networks by tracking the key relationships of politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated organizations.” [API]
Aggregators
iWave Prospect Research Online Aggregates ZoomInfo, NOZA, Guidstar, High Net Worth Alert, HEP GiftsPlus, Prospects of Welth, Foundation Finder and Pro Data. I’ve never used this service, but it looks very promising. If it really does provide all that for a $3k subscription, it’s a great deal! (Interestingly enough…they have a caveat that their service is available exclusively to not-for-profit purposes.)
StrikeIron has created web services out of a range of popular data products, ranging from address verification to business intelligence / market research data.
WealthEngine Aggregates regulatory data, voluntarily reported data and statistically modeled data to provide a view of an individual’s habits, interests and resources.
Free & Open Source Data
DBpedia Converts Wikipedia into a database, which allows for interesting things like seeing the connections between Presidents and their Cabinets. (And the million other interesting things you can find in Wikipedia…)
Datamob.org Datamob highlights the connection between public data sources and the interfaces people are building for them.
InfoChimps.org An “open marketplace for data” where people access huge data sets and obscure data sets: from corporate reporting to the top 100k crossword puzzle words of all time, you can find almost any type of data here.
Swivel.com Web community of data enthusiasts who create many types of chart / graph visualizations for the data sets they submit.
Get specific!
It’s important to remember that some of the best data comes from local and / or localized data sources. Chamber of Commerce directories, business council directories member-based organization directories (think: churches) and alumni databases can all be very valuable in expanding your network.
Another incredible set of data that is too diverse to list here is Industry Trade Association data sets. Whether it’s the rubber industry or the Green Building Council, getting access to the key players and their association’s local, regional and national structures will benefit your network data by leaps and bounds.
Good lists / other blog posts about data.
Trust Networks’s wiki of networked data sets. (Awesome list!)
Business Network Visualization @ SourceMap
Business Network Visualization is an emerging field. And, across the field of visualization, there is a movement towards integrating multiple visualization models to give end-users information-rich, yet increasingly simply experiences.
A new project called SourceMap adds to that a bit of good ol’ fashioned “saving the planet through consumer education.” The project combines node / link visualization with geographic mapping from Google Maps.
It’s a great start and an admirable project that helps people understand the impact of their purchasing decisions.
Check it out at http://sourcemap.org
a view of a supply chain from sourcemap
Professional Network Visualization
If a picture’s worth 1000 words, what’s data visualization worth?
You may not realize it, but you rely on data visualization every day. In the morning, when you watch the weather forecast, millions of pieces of information about weather of a vast, geographic are are consolidated into one simple image. You could never process the data for the weather in your region in a single day, but you process and act on the radar image (a visualization of that data) in just a few seconds.
Visualize your own network. Free trial. Get started now.
Networks of professional relationships are especially complex sets of data. The data comes from several sources and involves many overlapping relationships. In many cases, the data involved–even after our Professional Network Analysis process crunches it–is so rich and complex, it would take hundreds of pages to print it.
But with out Professional Network Visualization platform, you can make sense of it in just seconds.
Want to see some examples? Contact us and we’ll give you a tour.
You can also visit the “Business Networks” gallery at www.VisualComplexity.com.