In the era of information, data is essential to the success of many businesses. It provides insights, guides decision-making, and helps organizations understand their performance. However, data alone is not enough. Data is just a collection of numbers, facts, and figures.
It's crucial to interact with your data, to understand it, and to use it effectively to derive information from it.
There are roles, even entire departments, dedicated to the processing and presenting of data. These roles involve building intricate models on PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, or similar options and finely combing through the information collected. We see one consistent factor: they spend a lot of time with their data. This helps identify gaps or problems, answer questions, and share results.
This is great, don't get us wrong, but the reality is that many businesses and teams can't hire people just to analyze their data. And even if they do, it isn't just those people who need to know what's going on with the data - everyone needs to be empowered by data-driven decision-making.
This is where Spontivly comes into play. Our mission is to make data simple and accessible, enabling businesses to leverage their data to its full potential. We want you to be able to derive that same value from your data without having to develop new technical skills.
The Value of Interacting with Your Data
Data is a powerful tool to help businesses to grow and thrive. Businesses gain a deeper understanding of their performance, identify areas for improvement, and make informed decisions by tracking important metrics in real-time. However, to truly harness the power of data, it's essential to interact with it regularly. Let's talk about the three main benefits you reap from being close to your data.
👉 More Data Touchpoints, More Understanding
Interacting with your data regularly allows you to understand the context better and develop a stronger ability to notice outliers or red flags. This constant exposure to your data helps identify trends, patterns, and anomalies you might otherwise miss. The more familiar you are with your data, the more effectively you can use it to drive your business forward.
Think about if you're working with field data collected by your team. If you know roughly what the samples often look like, you'll notice something out of the ordinary. This can help you either mitigate the human error if the value was inputted correctly or work with your team to further diagnose what might have caused the abnormality.
👉 Visualization Empowers Understanding
Creating presentations and dashboards is another way to interact with your data. This process helps you understand the decision-making process, such as why you chose a particular chart or timeframe. With Spontivly, you can easily create personalized dashboards using data from various platforms. This allows you to keep your finger on the pulse and make data-informed decisions.
When you're building your dashboards, thinking about what you're trying to say with your data will help you come to better conclusions about what types of visuals to use. Whether you're comparing samples, showcasing trends over time, or highlighting a key metric, there will be different types of charts better suited for your story. The more familiar you are with the data and the types of charts, the more effectively you can communicate this! You'll also feel more comfortable fielding questions or explaining the data because you built the dashboard.
👉 Getting Acquainted With Collection and Presentation
Interacting with your data also means getting acquainted with the before and after steps, which are data collection and presentation.
When it comes to data collection, understanding why and how you're collecting your data is key. It helps you ensure your data collection methods are effective and that you're gathering results that will actually contribute to your organization's goals.
Finally, when it comes to data presentation, this is the summit of all you've done. Since you've been so involved and interactive with every step of the process up to this point, you'll naturally be able to present your data more clearly. Have you ever heard someone say 'explain it to me like I'm 5'? It's a great indicator of someone's understanding of a topic to see how well they can translate their knowledge into easily digestible information. Now that you know your data and its story so well, you can present it in a way everyone understands.

The Spontivly Advantage
At Spontivly, we believe in the power of data. Our tool is designed to make data simple and accessible, allowing anyone to build data dashboards. We connect with various community platforms such as Slack, LinkedIn, Meta, HubSpot, Discord, and many more, providing you with all the data you need in one place.
Our dashboards are easy to build and edit, allowing you to personalize them based on your needs. We've made the process so simple that it can be done in five minutes. This means anyone in your company can use Spontivly to interact with your data and make data-informed decisions. Before Spontivly, this intimate connection to building dashboards wasn't available to everyone. Now, anyone can derive these benefits from your company's data, helping your team learn and grow at a faster, more informed pace.
Next Steps
Data-driven decision-making is essential for business growth. By interacting with your data regularly, you can gain a deeper understanding of your performance, identify areas for improvement, and make informed decisions. With Spontivly, making data simple and accessible is our mission.
If you're ready to start interacting with your data and leveraging it to its full potential, we invite you to book a demo with our team of experts. Let us show you how Spontivly can help you grow your business.