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...
Data-driven cultures
The (near) future of data is linked
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...
Escape hatch for the echo chamber: an interview with Dan Wagner
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...
Agent of Openness
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...
Data donation: What’s at stake?
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...
Open data’s unsung heroes, evolving private sector appeal, ecosystem challenges — an interview with…
In a movement like open data, animated by the passion and skills of people who work tirelessly towards worthy ends, we are grateful that some of them — somehow — find the time to share what they think, and not just what they build. Leigh Dodds’s writing is candid,...
The Book That’s Finally Solved Collaborative Problem-Solving
Sprint (the book), is a true phenomenon. It describes a method developed at Google Ventures to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days. Published in March of 2016, the book has perfect ratings on Amazon.com and is a New York Times and Wall Street...
