Create an account by clicking ‘Sign Up’ on getzingdata.com. You probably want to use your work email address since it will make it easier to invite colleagues who have same domain. Zing supports Google Sign On for easy sign-up.
Connect your data source(s) and confirm that Zing is able to query your database(s). If you don’t have a data source of your own, you can use Zing’s sample dataset to get familiar with the app and then add your data source later.
Download the mobile app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store here. Or just login to Zing on the web, and then click ‘Zing App’ at the top.
You can easily add teammates from the web console by clicking ‘Invite Users’ from the web console and adding their email address. You can even import a list of comma seperated email addresses to bulk invite team mates.
You can also add teammates from the Zing mobile app by clicking ‘share’ and adding a team mate’s email address.
If you want to allow dashboards to be shared outside your organization, first turn on ’external sharing’ in the web console ‘settings’ page and then invite users by email address.
Administrators can add and remove user access by signing into the web dashboard and clicking ‘manage users’
You can create questions in Zing in three ways:
To start creating a visualization from the home screen of the Zing app, tap a table name and you’ll see a visual query editor pop up showing the fields for that table. You can drag + drop fields to the x-axis, y-axis, dimenension, or filter regions to immediately see the result.
To use SQL, follow the steps above, but tap the top right and select ‘SQL’
To query using natural language, simply type your question in the search bar from the home screen, select the appropriate data source, and you’ll see a result answering your question if AI was able to understand it correctly. If AI was not able to understand it correctly, you’ll see the visual query editor.
Depending on your question, Zing automatically selects a visualization that displays that data well. For instance, if you asked a question for ‘Sales by City’, Zing will show that as a bar chart by default because there is only one data series to display. If you had a more complex question ‘Signups by region by date’ Zing will automatically show a stacked bar chart as a time series since that is the most appropriate to show multiple series over time.
Zing will choose a default that makes sense based on your query, but you can easily customize the chart type displayed. Available options include:
You can also view a table with the underlying data if you’d like within the app by selecting the drop-down in the top right of the graph view and selecting ‘data table’. You can sort data tables by tapping on a column name to toggle between unsorted, ascending, and descending order.
Just tap ‘share’ in the upper right corner of the app to see a list of your colleagues already using Zing and invite them to the question, or invite a new team mate (who is part of the same domain).
Sharing a question or commenting on a question automatically saves it. You can change the name of a question by tapping ‘Rename Question’ from the upper right menu.
You can optionally share exernally to your organization if enabled in admin settings.
On the ‘question’ screen, type your comment then hit the blue arrow to post your comment to that question. You can @mention somebody by typing the @ symbol and start typing their name to see a list of teammates with the app. They’ll get a push notification (if enabled) or email (if push isn’t enabled) with your comment and a link to reply.
Save a graph from the question screen by tapping the three dots in the top right corner and then ‘Save to photo gallery’
To save the data table from that question, tap ‘Save data table as CSV’ and it will be saved to your phone / computer.
Data sources currently supported are:
You can set up multiple data sources – for instance you could have multiple Postgres databases as ‘sources’ for Zing and they will appear in the app as a single set of tables and questions.
Have a database source you’d like us to support but that we don’t yet? Let us know!
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