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Grafiti — The search engine for graphs and charts - on the web & Slack
Grafiti is a new search engine for charts, graphs, infographics, and soon, data sets! We're making the world's best visual insights easier to find, discover and use on the web and Slack.
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@nerdybff Thank you for taking a look! Would love to see said book when it's ready :)
Thanks for this! I'll use it from now as a help for all the background research that I constantly need. Got really interesting results while searching on social issues from my country, also from really relatable sources
@juanpablosarmi Thanks for checking us out!! We're absolutely looking for any and all feedback from users, especially regular users :)
This look great. Always looking for relevant charts and stats for decks, webinars, etc. Look forward to using this.
@jriddall thanks for checking us out! Shoot over any thoughts (good or bad!) as you continue to use Grafiti :)
Such an incredible repository of data! Love how intuitive the search function is.
Looking forward to integrated it in Slack too. Nice work team 🔥
@lachlankirkwood Thank you for checking us out and the kind words! If you have any feedback on the slack integration, just give us a holler (hi@grafiti.io)!
@lachlankirkwood @grafiti @chandni_chopra I found the search to be non-intuituve... i mean i figured it out but initially I really had no idea what to type. I would advise changing your placeholder text in the search box to be an example search eg "Time spent online"
@mickc79 ah, sorry about that! this is great feedback and something we can action very quickly so thank you!
Looks impressive, great job! It'll be very cool if the data which is on graphs and charts would be available in text format, so I could rebuild the graph:)
@yevgeniy_pozdeyev Thank you for taking a look! And yes, absolutely - adding the ability to download data and enabling users to create their own data visualizations is something that is on our roadmap.
Great UI and fast results! They could use some tuning though. For example if the search includes the word "forecast" it shouldn't show charts where the latest year is in the past.
@dante_martin Thanks for the tip Dante! That's actually super helpful, esp as we're currently designing filters for years, publishers & data sources. Any more thoughts like that, keep them coming!
Hi Hunters!
We’re excited to share Grafiti - a new search engine for graphs, charts & visual insights on the web & Slack. First off, a huge thanks to @kevin for hunting us :) We appreciate the guidance!
In our collective experiences (journalism, consulting, banking, marketing), we know finding the right credible chart or piece of data when you need it - for your deck, article or argument - can be a pain. Google offers a lot of content, but also a lot of noise.
I personally started this journey as an investigative journalist during the Arab Spring, fact-checking revolutions from my phone while on the ground. I experienced first-hand how hard it is to access real data & facts quickly - and how misinformation can spread even faster.
In a world where we can find GIFs, emojis and memes at the push of a finger, we believe data & facts should be as easy to find too!
Here’s what you can do with Grafiti on the web:
- Search & share over 200K charts, graphs, infographics & visual insights from credible publishers (digital and business media, business insights, trade orgs, non-profit/NGOs and more) as well as individual contributors. Our index is growing every day!
- Browse, create & share collections (groups/boards of charts). Check out our featured collections for examples.
- Upload your own charts for private or public use.
On Slack, you can search & post charts from within Slack using our integration. Just type “/grafiti”, enter your keywords and hit enter.
We’d love your feedback, particularly on the following:
1. Is our value proposition clear to you? Does it meet your needs? If so, why or why not?
2. What’s your feeling on how credible the information is? What could help improve that?
3. How can we better organize site?
4. How else can we improve your experience?
Any other questions, comments or feedback, please chime in!
Thanks again,
Farhan
^ we're trying to assess whether we've done a better job of filtering the noise out from Google for you! If so or if not, do let us know.
@farhan_mustafa2
Have you noticed patterns in what kinds of search queries this works well for and what kind of queries give undesirable results at the moment?
Congrats on the launch!
@keshav_dhandhania Hi Keshav, great question! Yes, right now i'd say there's more content leaning towards business, marketing and global development with a mix of news publishers as well as other topic-driven sources for sports, health, etc.
What are you looking for and how can we improve our content?
@farhan_mustafa2 As a data oriented person, I often look for graphical summaries instead of reading long articles. So I was just trying to search a few terms to see how well the product was working. The results for "world population" were awesome, but the results for "us state populations" / "us population by state" was mostly unrelated.
@keshav_dhandhania ah that's very helpful, thanks again! Yeah, we're working on search syntax and it's a pretty fun problem when it comes to "reading" charts :)
Hi @farhan_mustafa2 ! I love this idea but I'm curious about attribution, copyright issues etc for such a large variety of resources. Do you only index content that's free to use? How do you manage it?
@corinna_keefe Hi Corrina, thanks for checking it out! We index content under fair use principles by attributing & linking to the original source for all of our content. We are currently working on filters for image copyright types to make these issues easier to navigate. If you have any suggestions please let me know.
I always struggled find charts on the internet when I was in high school, now that I know how I can it's awsome!
@tyler_nass thanks Tyler! Yeah, a lot of this was driven by frustrations i had with researching things, and I'm a visual learner. Hope this helps and let us know how we can improve!
When I searched "international money transfers", it returned a graph about poland and his population.
The idea is great, the product looks solid, now you just lack the content.
Keep on, this is really useful!
@nicolas_curti sorry about that. You're right, we're working on refining the search experience/results and adding additional content every day. Hopefully, when you check us out again, you'll much better results. Thank you for giving us a test run!
@nicolas_curti @chandni_chopra Don't be too discouraged! It's a work in progress but it looks like you put in a lot of time and effort already. :)
@nicolas_curti @chandni_chopra @mariaelekt thanks for the support, Maria! if you have any suggestions, please let us know.
Hey everyone - we really appreciated your thoughts on our initial version of Grafiti and have diligently worked to upgrade our product (2x the charts and graphs, many ways to sort and filter, and Sherlock our helpful assistant to find what no one else can!). We just launched on PH as Grafiti 2.0!
I actually used Grafiti to pull together some background data for a research project. Working in r&d in media, I’m frequently working in really vague and emerging spaces. Being able to ground myself and my team in data helps us form hypotheses that inform the rest of our research. This product is really helpful to have one place to search for and gather that information rather than wading through Google. I just want data that’s actionable and this makes it easier.
@kourtbitterly thanks for the awesome use case! And always good to hear we're preferable to Google in some way. How do you think we can be more sticky compared to Google?
@farhan_mustafa2 it filters out the noise compared to Google. I know I’m getting something relevant rather than having to go through the mentally taxing process of determining if the information is reliable. I think the focus already makes it more valuable but increased volume of charts would make it one stop.
@kourtbitterly thanks Kourtney, that's extremely helpful and we'll keep focusing on adding more quality vetted insights!
@m_foros Thanks so much! If you have any feedback or requests, please let us know!
@yasmeen_khan_mustafa Thank you for giving us a try! If you have any further feedback on the experience, please send it our way!
@rizwan_aijazi thanks Rizwan! If you have any suggestions on how to improve, please let us know.
Farhan is genius, I have a full confidence in him , good job done by him. Highly recommended. Keep up a good work Farhan Mustafa.
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