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How interoperable components optimize your data stack
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....
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Centralize your data with super-connectors
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...
read moreEnable self-service analytics with data.world & metaphactory
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...
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Expand your data’s reach using parameterized queries
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...
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How to fight data bias with smart hires
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...
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3 ways to find out what your data people aren’t telling you
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 spend your days leading organizational...
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Finding your way with Collective Data Empowerment
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....
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Visual analytics expert Andy Cotgreave on why analytics teams need liberal arts, why Chief Data…
“But now we’ve realized that, well hang on, if you’re gonna build a driverless car, how does the car interact with the humans on the road? And that is not an engineering challenge, that is a liberal arts challenge because you’re looking at the world of philosophy,...
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3 new efficiency hacks your data team will love
I know this post’s title isn’t an exaggeration because at data.world, we use our own product. Extensively. And when these three features were debuted one Friday afternoon, they were literally given standing ovations. In case you missed them, here are three of our...
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Analytics evangelist Ann Jackson on being the voice of data, overcoming imposter syndrome, and setting aside intuition
Ann Jackson popped onto my radar when several colleagues shared her blog post “Aiming for data-driven? Don’t forget the people.” It was one of those tabs you keep open after reading because you know you have to do something with it, but you’re not sure what. Here’s...
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How Linked Data Creates Data Cultures
Prepare for a new understanding of what’s possible. Linked Data changes everything.
Collective Data Empowerment
How to make everyone more productive with data—not just the data elite.
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