What is youcalc

youcalc is a widget gallery, a widget creation tool, and a community of widget users and widget developers.
For widget users, youcalc is like most other widget galleries – find a widget that interests you and post it to your blog, your website, you iGoogle, your facebook, etc. It’s a zero-tech, few clicks operation - and it’s entirely free.

One thing is different though: youcalc widgets are “smart widgets” – they are not about gaming, socializing or staying tuned on news, but about extracting insight and knowledge from data and data analyses.

youcalc slurps data from most data sources on the web, mashes and crunches the data, and spits out interactive visually compelling widgets, that can be shared and embedded across the web, on desktops, mobile devices, etc.

youcalc widgets provide new and different angles on our world.

youcalc democratizes data analysis – anyone interested in analyzing data can use youcalc to pull data from the web, apply any calculation logic to the data, and spread the result as visual, interactive widget, to be used by ordinary people across the world.

What youcalc does

youcalc is basically about slurping and mashing data, analyzing it, visualizing it, and sharing the result with the world.

Using and embedding youcalc widgets is a simple, few clicks operation, accessible to any user on the Internet.
Creating youcalc widgets is a zero-code, drag-and-drop process. It requires no programming,  but it takes a logical mindset and some tech savviness. This is what youcalc offers widget makers:

Slurp: connect to just about any data source/API (incl. XML, REST, SOAP, JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Spreadsheet, etc.) and pull data into a widget for analysis. The slurping is real-time – when a user runs your widget, youcalc connects to the data sources and pulls the most recent data.

Mash: connect to any number of data sources simultaneously, allowing you to mash and mix different data sets into one widget. Combining different types of data often creates new perspectives and insight.

Crunch: get your hands on one of the most powerfull calculation and analytics platforms on the web. Model and apply just about any logic, in order to crunch, manipulate, sort and filter your data. If you can think it, you can build it with youcalc!

Visualize: add custom flash charts from a large chart library - then add interactivity through dropdown boxes, input boxes and submit buttons.  It’s all pure drag-and-drop!

Share: Wrap it all into a little widget and publish it to the youcalc gallery with a few clicks. From there, your widget can be spread and embedded across the Internet.

Ready to start building widget – register here