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Data Science & Data Visualization

Content Marketing

  • Rocket Content: Founded in 2013, Rock Content provides over 2,000 brands, marketers and agencies with innovative content marketing solutions, creative services, on-demand talent, and professional training. Rock acquired ScribbleLive in late 2019 and now employs over 500 people globally and maintains a talent network of over 80,000 creative professionals.
  • Skyword: Skyword connects exceptional writers, graphic designers, videographers, photographers, and other creatives with top-tier brands looking to truly connect with their audiences through great storytelling.

Data Science

  • Kaggle: Kaggle, a subsidiary of Google LLC, is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
  • Topcoder: Topcoder is a crowdsourcing company with an open global community of designers, developers, data scientists, and competitive programmers. Topcoder pays community members for their work on the projects and sells community services to corporate, mid-size, and small-business clients.

Data Visualization

  • Microsoft Power BI: Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft. It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.
  • Tableau: Tableau Software is an American interactive data visualization software company founded in January 2003 by Christian Chabot, Pat Hanrahan and Chris Stolte, in Mountain View, California. The company is currently headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States focused on business intelligence.

Articles on Data Visualization

Infographics

  • Canva: Canva is a subscription based company that sells high-quality infographic templates which make your design workflow faster and easier.
  • Infogram: Infogram is a web-based data visualization and infographics platform, created in Riga, Latvia. It allows people to make and share digital charts, infographics and maps. Infogram offers an intuitive WYSIWYG editor that converts users’ data into infographics that can be published, embedded or shared.
  • Infograpia: Infograpia is a subscription based company that sells high-quality infographic templates which make your design workflow faster and easier.
  • VISME: Make Professional Presentations and Infographics Online with Visme’s free tool. Thousands of templates and graphics. Publish Online or Download.

Interactive

  • Ceros is a content creation platform that can be one stop shopping for marketers who are looking to create all different types of interactive content from infographics to micro-sites and even magazines. Ceros highlights the fact that you don’t need any design skills to make highly engaging and interactive content, they handle all of that for you with their design studio.
  • ContentTools: ContentTools is a platform that was specifically designed to “help companies generate leads and engage customers through the use of interactive content.” They employ a number of different features for brands to use like a content grader, business assessments, quizzes, and even micro-sites that help collect valuable data.
  • Guides: Think of Guides.co as a SlideShare for interactive guides of sorts. This site allows you to take a standard whitepaper and really kick it up a notch by adding videos, images, and embedded files right into the standard text. This directly gets your readers involved, since they have to click to move forward, and with the ability to comment on each page, you can find out exactly what they are loving.
  • ion interactive: Engage higher quality prospects using ion, the best interactive content platform to create data-driven experiences without tech-savvy resources or developer code. Now you can utilize your existing team—and your existing content—to create experiences that will drive results
  • Mapme: Mapme is an interactive mapping tool that really lets you take your readers on a journey along a specific story line, news event, or travel trip. Users can follow along with set pins that highlight a starting point on the map and can be given even more information in the form of video, images, gifs, and data along the way.
  • PlayBuzz calls itself a “digital publishing platform” it’s goal is to allow marketers to create content that is optimized for engagement, interaction, and sharing, especially across social media. Its already become hugely popular on social media channels like Facebook. The platform is simple to use, simply choose the format, write (or add) your content or select content from their network, and share.
  • RooJoom: RooJoom is an easy way to take your existing content and transform it into something that is very interactive. Take everything from video to pdfs to images and text and make it far more engaging to your readers by bringing them on a “content journey.” RooJoom designed  their tool with the idea of creating the maximum amount of “stickyness” and it also even lets site visitors create their own content as well.
  • ThingLink: With ThingLink, you can actually embed content (like videos, text, and other images) inside another image. This means when your customers are enticed to click on more content within the image, they are brought even more targeted and engaging content. ThingLink is able to turn a simple piece of content like an image into something far more interesting and engaging.
  • Uberflip: Uberflip, (SnapApp is a subsidiary) is a content marketing platform. By creating an Uberflip content Hub, users can include blog articles, social media, videos, eBooks into a responsive interface with CTAs.
  • Votion: If your brand really wants to up the amount of interactive and engaging content you put out there, check out Votion for a really simple solution. Votion offers interactive brackets, polls, and lists, as well as quizzes and this vs that matchups. You can run anything that’s be created on social media and mobile devices, and Votion integrates with a number of other platforms.
  • WIREWAX: Video content has been growing by leaps and bounds the last few years, so it makes sense to want to try to capture the attention of your customers with interactive video content. Using WIREWAX, you can take your videos and make them clickable using “hotspots”, resulting in increased engagement and better click-through rates.
  • Zembula: The Zembula platform features a WYSIWYG experience builder so marketers can easily create highly-engaging, interactive experiences with no coding necessary. Choose the type of experience you’d like to create (Scratch-it, Peel, Slide, etc) and then upload your creative assets.

Presentation

  • Powtoon: Powtoon is a British company which sells cloud-based software for creating animated presentations and animated explainer videos.
  • Genially: The tool for creating interactive content that makes your audience fall in love. Communicate, educate, and attract by bringing your content to life.

Websites

  • WIX: Design and build your own high-quality websites. Whether you’re promoting your business, showcasing your work, opening your store or starting a blog—you can do it all with the Wix website builder.

Resources

  • Investopedia: Investopedia is an American website based in New York City that provides investing and finance education along with reviews, ratings, and comparisons of various financial products such as brokerage accounts.