data.world is rapidly establishing itself as the premier site for data scientists and analysts to host and collaborate on datasets. I have been impressed with data.world’s growth and interested in starting to use the platform in my professional projects. On...
The response to the introduction of SQL at data.world has been really amazing. In a short time, SQL has become one of the primary ways that users interact with data, whether through the query UI, or through our API integrations (Python, R, Java). In response, we...
When working with data, a key part of your workflow is finding and importing datasets. Being able to quickly locate data, understand it and combine it with other sources can be difficult. One tool to help with this is data.world, where you can search for, copy,...
OK… I’ll say it. Data discovery is broken. At data.world, we focus deeply on first-mile data problems like discovery, exploration, collaboration, and joining. With well over 18 million open datasets out there today, finding the perfect data for your project or...
A big part of our mission at data.world is to bring down barriers to data access — and in that spirit we are big fans of what the folks at Open Knowledge International are doing with Frictionless Data. In particular, the Tabular Data Package specification defines a...
As a data.world user, imagine that you want to supplement a dataset with results from an online survey. Now, if you wanted to keep your dataset up-to-date with the latest responses, what would you do? Could you upload files manually to data.world as many times as...