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Real world data can come in a tremendous variety of shapes and sizes. Protobi can currently import data in two standard forms:

Depending on the form of your data, it might take a bit of prep to shape the data to streamline your work in Protobi. In the professional plans, our expert analysts can typically take care of this for you. If you’d like to do it on your own, here’s what you need to know.

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Use simple clicks to create nuanced queries. Click to select a specific value (“is”). Option + click to select multiple values within an element (“or”). Shift + click to exclude a value (“not”).

Filters on different elements apply simultaneously (“and”).

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Sign into Protobi, then drag your SPSS or CSV datafile into the “New Project” icon to instantly create an online visualization you can see, explore, organize and share.

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Pew Research Gender and Generations Survey in Protobi Protobi is now available for individual research professionals and firms who work with survey data. And in free public beta for open collaboration. Sign in and try it!

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The piano keyboard is the perfect point-and-click interface. It can’t be any simpler. Anyone can appreciate the output. And it’s easy to get started. Yet it has nearly infinite possibilities for expressiveness and social interaction.

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StackOverflow is an innovative take on the Q&A discussion forum, focusing on answerable questions. At heart is its scoring system for the community to identify good answers and good questions, and in the process users develop reputation scores based on their contribution. Greg Hewgill created an awesome analysis of StackOverflow posts. Distribution of user reputation on StackOverflow

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The OpenVisConf hosted by Bocoup at the Boston Science Museum on May 16-17, 2013 was that rare conference that was amazingly worth attending. The speakers were the very people who create those awesome works we’ve all admired and forwarded, or wish we’d known about. Let alone the attendees. Here are my key takeways.

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