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Fathom
Fathom is a database analysis platform that understands data and converts them into a visualization form. There are various facets of the data analyzation happening within this platform.
Partnering with State Street, they built a visualization depicting the scale, growth, and complexity of 200 years of finance. Fathom combed through a database of 40,000 financial indicators and built prototypes to dig into selected data. Of the many possible stories to tell, they focused on four facets of growth: data, connectivity, complexity, and scope.
They also have partnership with On Being to create new ways of understanding the 14 years of diaglogs archived in the database. By doing this can help with On Going’s pattern of conversation happened and used visual representation that links the useful information of the same categories that for the purpose of developing new methodologies.
The part that fascinates me about this platform is how it’s super flexible about the utility in different fields of practice. The developers are devoted to create easier to understand database “translator” that everyone is able to understand to help people get the most out of their data. The data are most useful when it’s more straitforward and easeir to understand. The methodologies introduced is very meaningful for the evolution of database management in firms.