Yonder is a fast-growing authentic internet company on a mission to give the online world the same amount of cultural context as the offline world. “We’re the anthropologists of the internet,” says Taylor McCaslin—Senior Product Manager at Yonder—describing how the...
Ian Greenleigh
Why is everyone so fired up about data catalog tools?
You've probably heard a lot about data catalog tools lately. Why? You don’t need anyone to tell you; you feel it in your bones. Data is the most important competitive battleground of our time. The threat to every business is existential. Today’s winners will do...
How Aceable saves a week or more on important projects by busting three data bottlenecks with data.world
Aceable is a tech startup that creates easily-consumable, digital-first mobile content for state-certified drivers ed and defensive driving courses. More than 16,000,000 people have skipped the classroom and graduated from the company’s fast-paced, interactive...
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,...
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...
16 patterns you see in pre-data-driven companies
This is Part 3 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. Think about a challenge your company faces. Consider: who among your colleagues knows the most about it? Who has the most...
The high stakes and staggering opportunity of data-driven culture
This is Part 2 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. The world looks different from an airplane window. You notice things you can’t see from the ground: the way power lines cut...
You can’t build a data-driven culture without your hidden data workforce
This is Part 1 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. We’re on the edge of what could be the biggest multiplier in data productivity yet. We are experiencing a paradigm shift:...
Data: TED Talks ranked by persuasiveness, moral content, laughs, narcissism, and more
Owen Temple (@owentemple) was curious: What makes some TED Talks so persuasive? To get his answer, he applied Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to metadata and transcripts of all posted TED Talks and published Words of Persuasion: Text Predictors of...
How data sharing radically reduced air cargo congestion at one of Europe’s busiest airports
Photo CC BY-SA 2.0 Flickr user Alec Wilson Next time you find yourself frustrated with the typical inconveniences of air travel, imagine this… The day has arrived. You’ve been dreaming about Bali for years, and now it’s finally time to experience its beauty. But...
“Better question beats better data”
Welcome to our new series of micro-interviews, in which we ask a fascinating data person a single question about modern data teamwork. Here’s what we asked Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, president of KDnuggets. How can less-technical stakeholders contribute major value to...
How Linked Data creates data-driven cultures (in business and beyond)
By Tom Morris for data.world In The (near) future of data is linked, Bryon Jacob recalled the dynamics that forced the early web to explode into what it is today, and predicted that, very soon… Using data will be like browsing the web — because it will be browsing the...
How an econ major’s frustration inspired a better way to get economic data
Need to know what a Nashville-based truck driver makes in a quarter? Mark Bergenholtz built an app for that. The next time you hear a politician boast about creating jobs, fire up Mark Bergenholtz’s U.S. County Data Center and see how the claim looks in the cold light...
Do State Department Travel Warnings Reflect Real Danger?
The New York Times recently reported that international travel demand to the U.S. “dropped 17 percent after the implementation of [President Trump’s] travel ban.” Much less attention has been paid to the government’s role in shaping travel patterns out of the U.S.,...
Localizing data, quantifying stories, and showing your work at The Associated Press (an interview with Troy Thibodeaux)
If we’re lucky, data journalism, as a distinct and rare focus within journalism, is not long for this world. This is the effect of democratization. When technical skills begin to take hold in any industry, a familiar pattern plays out. Because of high barriers to...
Jonathon Morgan on the data of extremism, exploratory visualization, and modeling complex human behaviors
Total militia group FB comments responding to Trumps “election is rigged” claims, by state. Get the data Much of the data Jonathon Morgan looks at these days is not for the faint of heart. Armed militias, delusional belief in a rigged election, white nationalism, Nazi...
Open data’s unsung heroes, evolving private sector appeal, ecosystem challenges — an interview with…
In a movement like open data, animated by the passion and skills of people who work tirelessly towards worthy ends, we are grateful that some of them — somehow — find the time to share what they think, and not just what they build. Leigh Dodds’s writing is candid,...
How a fictional data scientist helped us deliver on a massive opportunity
I read the email three times to make sure it meant what I thought it meant. It was an unsolicited invitation to contribute a guest post to KDnuggets, one of the most popular data science blogs in the world. The editors had read about data.world, and wanted us to...
