Distinct Values

Ideas from data.world.

Data community

Meet a remarkable community of data enthusiasts.

Data catalogs

Become a data catalog expert with best practices and tips.

Data-driven culture

Perspectives and guidance to help you build a data-driven culture.

data.world community hits an impressive milestone

by Shawn Syjueco | Jan 13, 2021 | Agile Data Governance, Data catalogs, Data community

The data.world community hits an impressive milestone: we have now activated over a million accounts across out enterprise and community data platforms. Clear, accurate, and trustworthy data is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our partners use data.world to serve critical data to enable everyone to dig in and analyze.

What’s new and what’s next at data.world

by David Tishgart | Dec 7, 2020 | Data catalogs, Data-driven cultures

When you’re the lone SaaS vendor in a world of legacy data catalogs, it can at times be difficult to demonstrate innovation. Continuously rolling out updates, enhancements, and fixes via the cloud means you don’t get your time in the spotlight with a monumental...

Gartner names data.world a Challenger in the Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management, 2020

by Jenny Ryan | Nov 18, 2020 | Data catalogs

Augmented data catalogs (that is, those powered by technology such as knowledge graphs) play a key role in metadata management. In fact, almost exactly one year ago, Gartner predicted that “by 2021, organizations that offer a curated catalog of internal and external...

Are you ignoring the biggest team in your business?

by Shawn Syjueco | Nov 6, 2020 | Agile Data Governance

I’ll spare you the anticipation. The data team. That’s your biggest team, no matter your industry or line of business. But wait, just who is on it? Well, if you work with data, you are. And anyone who should work with data, they’re on it. This means: IT, data stewards...

When your data problems seem big, start small

by Shawn Syjueco | Nov 2, 2020 | Data-driven cultures

Your disorganized data lake can feel more like an ocean. But you can take control. Set the boundaries for starting up your data initiative. Without it, the problem can seem never-ending. Break your data solution up into bite-sized steps to achieve incremental (and...