By Tom Morris for data.world In The (near) future of data is linked, Bryon Jacob recalled the dynamics that forced the early web to explode into what it is today, and predicted that, very soon… Using data will be like browsing the web — because it will be browsing the...
First of all, let’s get this out of the way: Open data without an open data license is not open. The five points I’ll list here aim to help you as a data custodian make your data truly OPEN (saying it’s “open” is not enough). data.world is adding datasets from all...
Three blocks from the office, Lisa’s phone buzzes with a new alert: High correlation detected. She races back to her desk and inhales the auto-generated report. She can’t believe it found something this quickly. Is it a mistake? Just this morning she uploaded her...
Data-driven discourse has the power to break down the silos that separate us. It is the escape hatch for the echo chamber. The day the polls were all wrong The thesis of WIRED’s June 2016 article “The Polls Are All Wrong” seemed hyperbolic at the time. Then November...
An agent of openness is called to action There was a time when Albert Bowden could never have imagined being where he is today. In 2008, as a front-end developer focused primarily on improving his skill as a web programmer, he built things on the web but gave little...
If your company had data that could help save lives, or feed the hungry, or slow global warming, or impact society in any significant way, what would you do with it? How many critical initiatives — and potential solutions to humanity’s biggest problems — die on the...
