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Getting Oriented
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What is Juicebox?
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Juicebox is a new kind of tool for visualizing data. Organizations are so caught
up in the race to capture and analyze data that they’re rushing past the most
critical component – the end user. The best data in the world is useless if the
everyday decision maker can’t understand it and interact with it.

So we said, “What if you stopped and took a more thoughtful approach to data
visualization?”

1. You would think conversation, not presentation. Instead of just presenting
   data, you would create more ways for people to interact with, socialize, and
   act on the data.
2. You would create a more designful experience for the end user. The end
   product would feel a lot less like a spreadsheet or report – and a lot more
   like a social media platform.
3. And you would deliver a complete solution, not a build-it-yourself kit. This
   means delivering a customized, fully configured data product – not a
   sophisticated demo and a box of parts.

Juicebox allows you to deliver that full data product experience to end users.

Juicebox isn't intended for:

- Exploring data to discover what data you should present.
- Supporting lots of charts and configuration needs out of the box.
- Building applications for data scientists or data experts.

The Basics
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A Juicebox :term:`App` is comprised of one or more :term:`Stacks <Stack>`. Each stack is a narrative path
through special data visualization components called :term:`Slices <Slice>`. Slices can be
rather complex or as simple as a sentence. Likewise, depending on how many
slices you have in your data story, each stack could be very short and to the
point, or take the user through deeper exploration.

.. image:: images/JB-basic-outline.png
   :width: 400 px

Each slice in a stack requires a Data :term:`Service`, which is the connection point
between your Data :term:`Table` and the requirements of your slice type and its
configuration.

.. image:: images/JB-outline-tech.png

Here is a more detailed view of an app stack, and its pieces.

.. image:: images/JB-Outline@2x.png

To review,

- :ref:`apps`: Where everything connects.
- :ref:`stacks`: Where slices connect, to explore the data.
- :ref:`slices`: The core component, that presents data served to it.

See all common terms at the :doc:`../glossary`.