Beyond 20/20 Browsers

 

To see the story behind the numbers, you need a Beyond 20/20 Browser. With over 500,000 licensed Browsers worldwide, the Beyond 20/20 Professional and Publication Browsers have become a standard for viewing, charting, mapping and analyzing multi-dimensional data. Their ease of use, speed, and performance result in a high-impact presentation that will leave you and your users dazzled.

 

Publication Browser gives you the power to slice through published data, while Professional Browser provides added features that enable you to handle record-level data with ease.

 

Beyond 20/20 Publication Browser  - Data Sheet

 

. Featuring speed, power, and ease of use, Beyond 20/20's Publication Browser allows you to:

. View optimized, highly compact hypercubes of data, selecting and filtering so you see only what you want to see.

. Search across both data and textual fields.

. Export data in a variety of formats.

. Process large files quickly and efficiently.

. Browse Beyond 20/20 files containing up to two billion data points.

  • The Publication Browser is a full-featured but easy-to-use application for the typical information consumer. Many people find they can be productive with the Publication Browser after just an hour or so, and that they can completely master the application in less than a day - without expensive training courses. A fully functional demonstration version of the Publication Browser with sample data is available for download in the Downloads section.

  • The Professional Browser provides the same functionality found in the Publication Browser, plus advanced data aggregation capabilities and features for tabulating and manipulating microdata.

Both Browsers are included in the Beyond 20/20 Publisher's Edition. You can also license either Browser separately if you want to view and analyze data in Beyond 20/20 format but you did not receive a Browser with the data.

 

Features: Both Browsers

 

This section highlights the most important features common to both the Publication Browser and the Professional Browser.

 

Data viewing

. View Beyond 20/20 document files.

. Create different views of data; selectively show or hide dimensions.

. Find data using a variety of search criteria including document title, document description, notes, keywords, dimension names, source field names, codes, and labels.

. View metadata in any of 12 languages.

 

Data export : Export data in a variety of data formats for use with specialized data analysis tools, or export as HTML for presentation on a Web page.

 

Data visualization : View charts and maps using Beyond 20/20's unique ChartBrowse™ and MapBrowse™ features.

 

Data manipulation and analysis

. Group dimensions to create data hierarchies.

. Pivot and nest dimensions.

. Sum, group, and subset data.

. Calculate distributions.

 

Performance : Process extremely large files quickly and efficiently. Beyond 20/20 document files can have up to 2 billion cells (data points).

 

Sophisticated printing

. Print all data or selected data views.

. Exercise complete control over printed output including titles, headers and footers, and row and column heads.

 

Bilingual and multilingual : Supports French and English" out of the box"; other languages can be added.

 

Features: Professional Browser Only

 

The Beyond 20/20 Professional Browser includes the same functions as the Publication Browser, plus advanced data aggregation capabilities and features for tabulating and manipulating microdata, as well as additional data import and export options. These features are of most use to economists, statisticians, and data analysts who work with survey data.

 

Recompile and republish survey microdata :  The Professional Browser enables you to recompile and republish survey microdata from Beyond 20/20 extracts. You could, for example, create a highly customized extract or table from a larger, general-purpose extract.

 

Export data in SAS and SPSS format : The Professional Browser allows you to export Beyond 20/20 data in either SAS or SPSS format, permitting specialized analysis.

 

Launch external applications from Cell Information function : The Professional Browser's Cell Information function can be used to launch an external computer process, such as retrieving records from a relational database management system, based on the current cell selection in a Beyond 20/20 document file.

 

Re-band and Relabel Microdata : Banding is the act of defining ranges of numeric values within a specific numeric source field - for example, the field "age" might have a range from 20 to 60. Using the Professional Browser, you could re-band the age field and publish only statistics about 20- to 30-year olds. Similarly, the Professional Browser lets you change various labels in the data to better represent its content.

 

Create intermediate worksheets : The Professional Browser's View Worksheet command allows you to create a working copy - a worksheet - of all or part of the current view of your Beyond 20/20 document file. All operations normally available in the table view are available in the worksheet view, including group calculations, data imports, saving data to a table, etc. These operations may be performed even if the original document file is read-only. Changes made to the worksheet are not reflected in the source data.

 

Create new items derived from existing items : Using the Professional Browser's Computed Groups feature, you can create new items by applying arithmetic operations to existing items. For example, one item could be divided by another and then multiplied by 100, to create a new item that contains percentages.