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What the Chief Data Officer needs from a data catalog investment

by Tyler Durman | Feb 13, 2019 | Data catalogs

The stakes keep getting higher for the Chief Data Officer (CDO), and the clock is ticking. While most still struggle to build a data-driven culture, it’s up to them to bring their data, analysis, and people together. A modern data catalog can help.

What is a data catalog and how do you find the right one?

by Tyler Durman | Feb 4, 2019 | Data catalogs

While data catalogs might promise a Google-like experience when finding, interpreting, and collaborating on data in the enterprise, most of them lack the usability, effectiveness, and speed of the Knowledge Graph. Learn how to find a modern data catalog from this blog.

The top 10 datasets of 2018

by Patrick McGarry | Jan 3, 2019 | Data community

A landmark year for the data.world communityAs we approach the new year it’s always a great time to look back and take stock of the road we have traveled over the last 12 months. This year in datasets, we continued to ride the political roller coaster with everything...

How interoperable components optimize your data stack

by Scott Came | Sep 27, 2018 | Data catalogs

Like many technologists, my first exposure to “building stuff” as a child was through Legos. I remember spending hours clicking individual bricks together to build rooms, assembling the rooms into buildings, and arranging buildings into neighborhoods and little towns....

Centralize your data with super-connectors

by Shawn Syjueco | Sep 25, 2018 | Data catalogs

There’s only thing stopping you from satisfying your sweet tooth: baking that next batch of delicious brownies. You’ve got all the ingredients in front of you. One problem though: you don’t have any bowls to mix them in. From the sugar to the baking soda, there’s not...

Enable self-service analytics with data.world & metaphactory

by Bryon Jacob | Sep 21, 2018 | Data catalogs

One of the most powerful features of data.world’s data-first platform approach is that access to data is exposed through a well-standardized query language and web service protocol — SPARQL. And because SPARQL is so well standardized, there are many tools on the...

Expand your data’s reach using parameterized queries

by Shawn Syjueco | Sep 19, 2018 | Data catalogs

Taking a deep dive into your organization’s data can feel like stepping out of an airport in a foreign country for the first time. The world continues to move around you while you freeze, dumbfounded as people whiz past, speaking languages that are as good as...

How to fight data bias with smart hires

by Jenny Ryan | Sep 12, 2018 | Data-driven cultures

Algorithms are only as good as the data that feeds them. Data scientists are deeply familiar with the impact of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), where messy inaccuracies, fragmented data, and the like result in poor analysis. But fairness, inclusion, and bias in the...

3 ways to find out what your data people aren’t telling you

by Tyler Durman | Aug 29, 2018 | Data-driven cultures

This is Part 5 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. So, you’re a data executive. You’re on a mission to build a data-driven culture. You...

Finding your way with Collective Data Empowerment

by Tyler Durman | Aug 23, 2018 | Data-driven cultures

This is Part 4 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. You are in a dark forest. Above, the dense canopy of limbs and leaves hides the sun’s position. Your phone died miles ago....