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Getting Started

DataTile Drive (My Space)
Beginners Guide: load and tidy a survey
Beginners Guide: an overview of a crosstab
Beginners Guide: create your first chart
Beginners Guide: create your first dashboard

Data Loading and Processing

Data Loading

Upload your first database
Preparing SPSS files: do’s and don’ts
Tips for uploading databases from Excel file
DATA Panel: Managing uploaded volumes
Uploading multiple waves for tracking studies
Best practices for structuring data for trend analysis
DataTile Codebook - succinct data map declaration
Automated upload via Data Collector API
Dictionary for coding in Excel format
Downloading and transferring databases and dashboards

Database Settings

Database settings overview
DataTile Metrics
Rotated databases
CORREL metric: Pearson’s correlation coefficient
Affinity index (Aff.idx metrics)
Count per Capita Metric
Feature Count metric - F.count
Significance thresholds
Global database filtering
Text Refiner in DataTile
Correspondence Analysis in DataTile
TURF in DataTile

Meta-Editor Functionality

Variable types in DataTile
Create and organize folders in Meta-Editor
Grouping variables in Meta-Editor
Creating a logical variable
Trim variables' labels in Meta-Editor
Setting up and applying weights in DataTile
Midpoints: digit values for categorical variables
Re-code scale question options
Derive time series variables from date variable
Auto tokenizer and text variable settings

Multi-response Sets

Dichotomous Multi-response Set
Categorical Multi-response Set
Quantitative Multi-response Set
Multi-response Set for Average aggregations
Numeric Aggregate as a Multi-response Set
Inclusion patterns for MR-sets
How to add a new variable to an existing MR-set
Creating arrays of MR-sets

NPS

Built-in NPS calculation
Recoded NPS: step-by-step manual

Encoder (Text Refiner 2.0)

Crosstab and Data Analysis

Beginners (Cross tabulation)

Сrosstab Interface in DataTile
Filter drop zone in the crosstab area
Split drop zone in the crosstab area
Value drop zone in the crosstab area
Totals in Crosstab
Significance in Crosstab
On-drop operations in crosstab
MATH formulas in crosstabs
Trim options on DVI
GRID Report
Tabs for storing requests in a crosstab
Decks in DataTile: options & possibilities
Show groups on rows
Simultaneous search by multiple keywords
Heatmap

Tips (Cross tabulation)

Synchronized crosstab dimensions
Save featured variables as presets
Crosstab iteration: Generating multiple tables in one step
Whole deck filter
Segmentation of date variables
Segmentation of numeric variables
Trim labels directly in a crosstab
Coding variables using Logical Expression Builder (LEB)
Logical operators: AND, OR, NOT, ANY...OF.
Logical Condition on Numeric Values

Full-screen mode on DVI

Advanced (Cross tabulation)

Rebase data by adjusting the sample (base) used in your calculations
Handling missing values / empty cells in calculations
VAL SUM & VAL AVG operations in LEB
Standardized Residuals

Charting and Data Visualization

Chart Types

Bar chart for compact labeling
Line chart
Pie chart / Donut chart
Funnel chart
Scatter chart
Multi-column rank chart
Euler Diagram
Word Cloud Chart

Charts Guidebook in DataTile
How to save, download and share your chart
Chart Publishing & Embedding
Color settings for charts
Handling zero values on charts
Displaying multiple metrics on a chart
Confidence interval
Callouts on horizontal bar charts

Dashboard

Dashboard Settings
Widget Settings
Dashboard Menu
Widget labels settings
Widget grouping
Images on Dashboard
Image bundle layout
Images as labels for categories on the axis
'Sort by control' feature for image grid layout
Source chart on dashboards
Text on Dashboard
Proxy Control
Proxy Collector
Distribute and clone widgets to the dashboard's tabs
Splits on Charts & Dashboards
Contexts: widget display conditions
Join charts built from different databases
Switching Database for Dashboard
Text template generation using Chat GPT
Significance legends on dashboards
Disable comparison indication for the entire dashboard
Rebasing on dashboards using controls
Calculating Moving Average in DataTile
Exporting individual charts from dashboards
Export Dashboard to Excel
Embedding elements on a dashboard using iframe
Zoom on Dashboard

Control

How to create a control
Control Editor Interface
Presets for control categories
Selection strategy or default control position
Secondary labels for selected options in controls
Aliases as alternative control labels
Weight Application In Control
Option groups control
How to assign controls to widgets
Control Assignment: Put on Rows/Columns/Split
Control Assignment: Mask
Control Assignment: Highlight
Control Assignment: For each
Control-to-control interactions
Source Control
Hide options with controls
Manual application of control changes
Manage dashboard access using controls
String variables as control options
Setting the date range with controls

Report Generator

Report Generator: build a PowerPoint template
Report Generator: build a custom Dashboard
Report Generator: link the PPT template and the dashboard elements
Report Generator: template upload and report export
Report Generator: automation with YAML script
Generate reports in bulk
Best practices for creating PPTX templates

Sharing and Access Management

How to share your databases, dashboards and charts
Advanced Sharing for Dashboards
Public access to the dashboard via link

User Management

System Roles
How to administer users
Content of the TELEMETRY database
User Deletion
Groups & Teams in User Management
Transfer ownership of your data
Take over ownership of the user's data
Changing ownership by passing selected entities to another user
Manage your profile information

Administration

How to reset your DataTile password
Hardware recommendations for running a DataTile instance
Cross-server synchronization of dashboards and databases
Enabling ChatGPT on your DataTile server
Setting up Single Sign-on (SSO) (SAML 2, OAuth 2.0, OIDC) on your DataTile server
Data View: manage Syndicated studies
Server Supervisor Guidebook
Data Governance (Server-Wide Limits)

Integration

Hash identifier of an entity in DataTile
Retrieving data from DataTile Dashboard Data API
API for import and export codebooks
Embedding a headless dashboard into an external website

Product Updates

Digest 2026 February
Digest 2025 December
Digest 2025 October
Digest 2025 September
Digest 2025 August
Digest 2025 July
Digest 2025 June
Digest 2025 May
Digest 2025 April
Digest 2025 March
Digest 2025 February
Digest 2025 January
Digest 2024 December
Digest 2024 October
Digest 2024 August
Digest 2024 July
Digest 2024 June
Digest 2024 May
Digest 2024 April

Significance Testing

Before You Test: Assumptions About Groups & Variance
Standard T-test in DataTile
Standard Z-test in DataTile
Advanced Z-test with Audience Overlap Detection
Statistical Testing for Net Promoter Score (NPS)

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Report Generator

Report Generator: build a PowerPoint template
Report Generator: build a custom Dashboard
Report Generator: link the PPT template and the dashboard elements
Report Generator: template upload and report export
Report Generator: automation with YAML script
Generate reports in bulk
Best practices for creating PPTX templates

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