by Shad Reynolds | Oct 19, 2016 | Data catalogs
Perhaps hard to believe, but SQL is celebrating it’s 30th birthday! Top Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Legend of Zelda, and Structured Query Language (or SQL)—were all released in 1986. What a year… So, what better way to celebrate than to enable SQL querying in...
by Shad Reynolds | Oct 5, 2016 | Data catalogs
tldr; Check our awesome SPARQL Tutorial! Do you know SPARQL? No? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. As a matter of fact, there’s a pretty good possibility that you’ve never even heard of SPARQL. Let’s see what Google says… SPARQL (pronounced “sparkle”, a recursive acronym...
by Joe Boutros | Sep 28, 2016 | Data catalogs
You may have noticed a few changes to the discussions feature on the data.world dataset pages. During the course of our research and user interviews, discussion, documentation, and commentary about data were identified as valuable context that get lost or locked away....
by Ian Greenleigh | Sep 13, 2016 | Data catalogs
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...
by Joe Boutros | Sep 8, 2016 | Data catalogs
Collaboration and contribution are two of the most discussed concepts inside the data.world product team, and consequently the areas we’ve focused on the most in our user testing. A platform centered around user generated or contributed data needs to have a tight and...
by Joe Boutros | Aug 31, 2016 | Data catalogs
One of the most important factors in the success of a platform like data.world is what we call “data liquidity”. Central to our vision for data.world is to become the first stop to answer the question: “I wonder if there is a dataset about _________?”. The social...
