Connecting data to the people who need it is a lot like shipping, hooking up fiber internet or running a marathon – the last mile is always the hardest. Some data catalogs do solid work pounding the data-governance pavement for the first 25 miles of the race, but when...
Jon Loyens
What is DataOps?
Imagine this: it’s time for your family’s weekend getaway after a tough week at work and school. In the midst of the fun, you get a text that a critical data pipeline broke at work, and you need to fix it immediately. Now your weekend plans are on hold as you head...
What it means to be a true cloud-native data catalog
When Marc Benioff popularized the term "cloud," validated the Software-as-a-Service delivery model, and coined the phrase "No software" at Salesforce.com, he had a very distinct vision in mind. He saw a world where businesses were free from the time and expense of...
10 tips for building your data warehouse and data catalog together
What do you do first, build a data warehouse or catalog your data? It’s not quite the chicken and egg question, but it is a dilemma that many enterprise data leaders face. In this blog, we’ll explore why and how you should do both at the same time. Read on if you’re...
Principles of Agile Data Governance
This is Part Four of a four-part series about Agile Data Governance. In Part One, we covered lessons learned from software development history and how they should guide us in today’s data challenges. Part Two profiles stakeholder types and explains the process at a...
How Agile Data Governance advances data-driven cultures
This is Part Three of a four-part series about Agile Data Governance. In Part One, we covered lessons learned from software development history and how they should guide us in today’s data challenges. Part Two profiles stakeholder types and explains the process at a...
How to Minimize Knowledge Debt and Make Agile Data Governance an Everyday Practice
This is Part Two of a four-part series about Agile Data Governance. In Part One, we covered lessons learned from software development history and how they should guide us in today's data challenges. Let's quickly recall the definition of Agile Data Governance before...
Agile Data Governance: Why Modern Data Challenges Require a New Approach to Governance
Long before starting data.world, I was enamored with creating data-driven cultures. We founded data.world to help the world adopt and improve data-driven decision-making and data literacy. I’ve seen firsthand how this substantially increases both corporate...
The case for radical transparency in enterprise data catalog pricing
We practice radical transparency here at data.world. It’s evident in everything we do— from how we interact with customers, employees, and investors to how we grow and support the world’s largest open data community. In fact, transparency is literally written into our...
data.world is live in Snowflake Partner Connect
We’re excited to announce data.world’s launch in the Snowflake Partner Connect Portal. We’re huge fans of Snowflake, their product, and their people. We believe they’ve built the backbone of a modern, cloud-native data management solution that just works. Why...
Thoughts on the usability of enterprise data products
The other day, a member of our sales team shared this Twitter thread comparing the usability of baby clothes to enterprise software. This takedown is both funny and true, speaking as a parent and as an enterprise software co-founder and user. The really insightful bit...
Thoughts on Salesforce buying Tableau
As with last week's news that Google acquired Looker for $2.6B for Google Cloud, Salesforce's $15.7B purchase of Tableau is a clear sign that bringing business users into the fold by making data and analytics more accessible isn't just a nice idea—it's a must-do. We...
Stop emailing spreadsheets!
Hey data people, how many times has this happened to you? You have a hunch about something impacting your business, maybe there’s a region with declining sales or maybe you think there’s some nefarious activity on your website that’s skewing numbers, so you email your...
What do I put in data.world?
Frequently when I demo data.world at conferences, meet-ups and customer meetings, I get asked “What can I put in data.world?” It’s easy to look at the platform and assume that it’s like a database (it can be one those) or a project management platform (it can also be...
Supporting Advanced Visualization Sharing at data.world
Our intent at data.world has always been to build an amazing platform to share your data and analysis and collaborate with your colleagues and peers on your data projects. In order to do this, a core piece of our product strategy is to provide amazing APIs and SDKs...
