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NewSci

NewSci, a big data startup, provides data analytics and visualization for clients nationwide. Cuttlesoft helped them simplify the process with a custom web app.

The Challenge

Reduce the complexity in NewSci's data to empower their end users to find relevant insights that matter.

What we did

We created software that integrated the vast data in NewSci's environment, streamline that data into visualizations, and developed a web application that allowed users to create individualized groups of those visualizations.

Deliverables

  • Visual design
  • Custom built Angular web application
  • Intermediate storage for user preferences and customizations using Node.js and MongoDB
Services

Web Application Development

Platforms

Heroku

Technologies

Angular

MongoDB

Node.js

Big data is big business

NewSci, a big data startup, provides data analytics and visualization for clients nationwide. Cuttlesoft helped them simplify the process with a custom web app.

Big data is big business. Thanks to modern technology, organizations can now capture and store vast pools of valuable data with ease. The difficulty comes when transforming all of that raw data into meaningful, actionable information. That’s precisely what NewSci does for nationwide clients in the healthcare, education, and nonprofit sectors.

Founded by David Lawson and Jay Goulart, NewSci takes mind-boggling quantities of information and turns them into digestible knowledge. Through analysis, insight, and visualization, NewSci lets organizations make better use of their data.

Despite the insightful analysis they provided, NewSci had a problem. Although their technology stack worked well — Hadoop on top of IBM’s Softlayer for cloud-based data storage and processing, IBM BigInsights for analysis, and Tableau for data visualization — it was intimidating to users and lacked original branding.

That’s where Cuttlesoft came in. The team was charged with creating a beautiful, branded frontend that showcased the Tableau visualizations NewSci creates for clients. That meant building a secure and responsive integration with Tableau that would let NewSci users view their data with ease.

To solve the problem, Cuttlesoft designed a frontend that integrated securely with Tableau’s user authentication, allowing for single sign-on between NewSci and Tableau.

Then, using the MEAN stack, Cuttlesoft built a customizable dashboard interface to make viewing data easy and intuitive. Integrated with Tableau’s “Viz” data visualization platform, it allows NewSci users to drag and drop relevant graphs and datasets to build and manage their dashboards, without ever having to navigate Tableau.

I was impressed with their ability to quickly grasp both the project’s functional aspects and our clients’ needs.

Outcomes

This custom solution saves NewSci users time and effort by letting them optimize their data feeds to see only the info they need, enabling them to act on that information faster than ever.

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