# Dots Help Center
Explore our How-To articles to kickstart your journey with Dots, a cutting-edge visualization and reporting tool. Dots is built and supported by the team at Hikaya. (opens new window)
Some of the key features of Dots are:
- Import data sets from external sources.
- Perform cleaning and scheduling operations to keep your data up to date.
- Visualize your data in map layers using our interactive mapping portal.
- Create charts and tables to save them on a dashboard to share with others.
- Author narrative reports with data generated from your data sets.
Looking for a tutorial?
Check out our blog post Tutorial: Visualizing giraffe population using a point map (opens new window) where we walk through creating map layers with an open data set.
Not finding what you need? Or do you have a use case that you'd like to see if Dots can help with? Contact us here. (opens new window)