Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

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Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

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This is the Future Tech Podcast. I'm Alan Thomas and today I have Amman Seagi with me founder and CEO of DataZAR. How you doing

Amman? Good good. Thank you for having me. Oh no problem. So tell us about DataZAR. What

does the company do?

Yeah, so Datazar is a research collaboration platform,

which means we allow researchers to upload their data, analyze it together,

and build out their paper using the platform and using

the open source tools that we provide through our platform, a web and desktop.

And our goal is to make research available to everyone.

So all the research that's created, given that it's public,

is available to everyone, for everyone to read and replicate

and basically embodying the scientific process in a web

platform.

And tell us why it's important to have a service like this, like what void is being filled here?

Yeah, so I can probably start with the background of how it all that started and I think that explains

pretty well, like the reasoning behind it so I started days when I was in college I

went to the University of Cincinnati I was studying physics at the time I think this

was around April of 2015 and basically I loved sharing data. I still do. I loved

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