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...
