Big data has revolutionized the business world. Since the phrase “big data” first rose to prominence in the early ‘00s, numerous studies have shown that businesses focused on using data and business analytics to inform their decisions are significantly more productive...
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And That’s a Wrap – Takeaways from Catalog and Cocktails Season Three
Thursday’s Catalog and Cocktails podcast season three finale capped Tim and Juan’s most-popular season yet, with the hosts toasting their 95th episode with … Champagne? (Not a cocktail, we know. But, hey, it was a special occasion.) The episode served as a...
5 Questions with Zhamak Deghani
Zhamak Dehghani is the Director of Emerging Technologies at Thoughtworks and the leading expert on data mesh. We’ll chat about the emergence of the data mesh as a concept, why the approach works for eliminating architectural silos, and how it’s producing more data-driven cultures.
5 Questions with Kelly Wright
In a relatively short time, we’ve gone from collecting and neglecting data to managing, enriching, and learning from data. We are in the age of collective data empowerment, where user-friendly apps and data ubiquity mean almost anyone can answer complex business questions. So why does the “data-driven” enterprise still sound like a pipe dream?
Happy Valentine’s Day? Analyzing How Americans Spent Their Time Alone During the Pandemic
data.world is home to hundreds of thousands of freely available, open datasets. With so many choices, it can be hard to know where to start. Join me as I choose a dataset, ask questions, explore the data, and share what I’ve learned. Valentine’s Day may typically...
How to Write a Problem Statement for an Open Data Project
There are literally millions of datasets on the internet that are open and freely available to use. Whatever your focus, with so much data at your fingertips, it can be tempting to utilize these resources to improve your data processing skills, uncover new...
Top 5 Trends for Data Management in 2022
2022 is here! If the last two years are any indicator, maybe we’ll end up calling this the “decade of data,” with next gen data observability, data catalog, data integration platforms, cloud data warehouses, and more making big news and bringing in big funds. We’ve...
Anatomy of an Agile Data Governance Sprint
So you’ve persuaded your data leaders and key stakeholders that the only way to achieve a data-driven culture is by adopting an Agile Data Governance methodology. Great! You’re on your way to becoming an organization where data producers and data consumers work...
5 Questions with Lars Albertsson
We all strive to be data-driven. And yet we all instinctively know that we’re not very good at it. In fact, if you believe any number of recent surveys, it seems we may actually be getting worse at data. One reason for this is a misalignment on what success looks like. How do you define and measure it? What is the actual value of your data?
How to Develop Your Agile Data Governance Charter
Anyone who has worked in an enterprise organization can tell you: change is hard. Especially when it comes to shifting away from fully entrenched principles and processes like traditional top-down governance – even if it’s not working. So how do you convince data...
5 Questions with Cindi Howson
Self-service is great for listening to music, pumping gas, and figuring out what to binge watch on TV. But is self-service really what we want from our analytics? What happens to the business world when everyone is a data analyst?
Why Top-Down Data Governance is Failing
Every year, enterprises worldwide waste millions of dollars on failed data initiatives. While there are a number of factors that contribute to this, data governance is often cited as a major hurdle. That’s because too many organizations view data governance as a...
5 Questions with Tejas Manohar
ETL (Extract Transform and Load) was the SOP for data integration for 25+ years. A decade ago the introduction of data lakes pushed transformation to the end of the process and into tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift. Now the latest chatter in the data management industry is Reverse ETL. Shouldn’t we call this LTE?
“Why I Chose to Join data.world” — Dean Allemang, Principal Solutions Architect
For the past decade or so, I’ve been fortunate enough to make a successful career helping large organizations manage their data at scale. During that time, I’ve come to believe that data plays a role beyond good enterprise management; indeed, it holds the key to the...
When it’s Wednesday, it’s Catalog & Cocktails
We started our data podcast, Catalog & Cocktails, as a way to stay connected and keep the discussion going about data in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our virtual happy hour over Zoom has been a hit, and we’re excited to announce that in 2021, we already have a phenomenal lineup of experts to join our podcast and share their perspectives.
data.world community hits an impressive milestone
The data.world community hits an impressive milestone: we have now activated over a million accounts across out enterprise and community data platforms. Clear, accurate, and trustworthy data is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our partners use data.world to serve critical data to enable everyone to dig in and analyze.
Understanding NULL values: a research partnership with the University of Edinburgh
We are excited to announce a research partnership with University of Edinburgh Professors Leonid Libkin and Paolo Guagliardo from the School of Informatics. The goal of this research is to develop well founded approaches to deal with the users intended semantics for...
Improving Dataset Search: a research partnership with Lehigh University
Photo: “Linderman Library, Lehigh University” by NDXP is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Can you imagine trying to find a bit of information on the Web without using a search engine? Of course not. Similarly, the number of public datasets now available online is so...
Understanding the 2020 US census internet response rate with data projects
Because the 2020 census is the first truly online US census, the response method has been a key part of its response rate data. We might use this data to ask questions like: Which households are responding via the internet and which are not? Has the internet response...
Data context is key to understanding COVID-19 data
With so many people talking about, thinking about, and working with COVID-19 data, it’s often difficult to filter out the noise and get to what’s useful. That’s why we’re working with partners and community members to curate the highest quality data and bring it to...
