“Oh, that’s not how your team tracks it?” Warning: This scenario may hit a bit too close to home for those of you who are knee-deep in data work. Ever pulled up multiple files supposedly containing the same fields only to discover they were actually quite...
Love ’em or hate ’em, no one argues that Amazon hasn’t altered how people shop and vendors sell. While Amazon may account for almost half of e-commerce sales in the U.S.,¹ we were really struck to read that the Amazon Marketplace may have over five million marketplace...
When was the last time a client asked you something that scared you? I’m not trying to send you to a dark place, but to many consultants I know, questions as mundane as “How did you calculate this number?” are the stuff of nightmares (or headaches, at least). Why is...
We know Plotly has been a popular choice among data.world members for quite some time. When you browse through data.world’s bank of free and open data, you can see it in the way members like @monsieurwagner have leveraged Plotly open-source libraries and our datasets...
Working with new data can be overwhelming. How do you extract information and knowledge from the facts sitting in front of you? In this article, we’ll explore a new dataset. We’ll ask, then answer, a number of common types of questions. Exercises and the full dataset...
“How can I get my data into data.world?” We hear that question often enough. It’s tough to upload and continuously update the assets powering your data work. When your data lives in different places and is updated at different rates, it gets even more complicated....
