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...
2021
The Data Evolution — Part IV
Let’s Sprint the ‘Last Mile’ of Data Evolution to Empower Firms, Schools, Public Health, and More Every morning we are challenged to think about data when we open our news feeds: From a panel investigating disinformation, to commentary on the sins and virtues of...
The Data Evolution — Part III
The Conundrum of Data (and data.world) — a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma To bend Winston Churchill's famous description of Russia, data is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. On one hand, data’s function is as apparent and concrete as...
The Data Evolution — Part II
How the Brains and Nervous Systems of Data Ignite Corporate and Collaborative Cognition Just as I began to write this essay, eyewear startup Warby Parker effectively made the point of my last post on data’s new “Cambrian age” — The company generated $6.7 billion in...
The Data Evolution — Part I
Dawn in the Anthropocene — The Evolution of Data We are currently witnessing the earliest days of humanity’s next chapter. Our society is evolving into a data-driven civilization, its contours just now emerging. Understanding the significance of this point in...
data.world announces new integrations for the modern data stack
data.world is happy to announce several new integrations to increase visibility into data pipelines and assets. Customers can now seamlessly catalog and query data and metadata from Databricks, Reltio, and Salesforce, adding to our more than 100 pre-built...
5 Questions with Kirk Borne
We all want to get more value from our data, right? So should we wrangle it, prep it, classify it, mine it, or model it? Then once we’ve got our data squared away, should we do prescriptive or predictive analytics? And does that require real-time or just-in-time data? If we had a nickel for every buzzword we hear, we could afford far better podcasting equipment.
Announcing our Knowledge Graph Accelerator
data.world’s commitment to knowledge graph technology is nothing new. We believe that an enterprise data catalog must be powered by a knowledge graph. Gartner predicts that graph technologies will be leveraged in over 80% of innovations in data and analytics by 2025....
Why so blue? 5 reasons data engineers are burnt out
Data engineers are unhappy. Although that may seem like a broad, sweeping generalization, it’s true – and we have the stats to prove it. For our new white paper, Burned-out Data Engineers Are Calling for DataOps, we teamed up with DataKitchen to survey the job...
5 Questions with Denise Gosnell
This week, Juan and Tim are joined by Denise Gosnell, CDO of Datastax, to talk about the business of open source and how community-centric data applications are reshaping the enterprise.
Do you know where your sensitive data lives?
According to the World Economic Forum, the amount of data generated each day is expected to reach 463 exabytes globally by 2025. As the quantity and complexity of data increases exponentially, enterprises who collect it have a...
5 Questions with Emil Eifrem
Catalog and Cocktails hosts, Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper sat down with CEO of Neo4j, Emil Eifrem, to cover the evolution of the data landscape so far, and to speculate where it’s heading.
5 Questions with DJ Patil
The episode touched on a variety of topics including the U.S. pandemic response, using data to sow mistrust, and the ethical use of data. The following five questions are excerpted from the podcast. You can check out the entire recording here:
Last-mile governance: the key to unlocking data democratization
Connecting data to the people who need it is a lot like shipping, hooking up fiber internet or running a marathon – the last mile is always the hardest. Some data catalogs do solid work pounding the data-governance pavement for the first 25 miles of the race, but when...
Announcing new data.world Documentation Portal
Have you ever gotten stuck trying to figure out how to effectively use certain functionality in some software application? Do you remember how frustrating it was to search for guidelines and instructions required to get things done? No one can afford to stay behind,...
Catalog & Cocktails: Seven Keys to Podcasting Success
Data catalogs benefit everyone, but only when it becomes a core component of your data strategy. You need to be asking these three questions to drive data catalog adoption in your organization.
Three Keys for Driving Data Catalog Adoption
Data catalogs benefit everyone, but only when it becomes a core component of your data strategy. You need to be asking these three questions to drive data catalog adoption in your organization.
Does your team get value from data?
Across industries, verticals, disciplines, and geographies, there is a burning desire to be data-driven. Easier said than done though. In the most recent NewVantage Partners Big Data & AI Executive Survey (2021), only 24% of companies consider themselves...
10 Data and Analytics Predictions
Who says mid-April is too late in the year for a predictions blog? When you’re in an industry as dynamic as data and analytics, it’s important to take a step back and look at the big picture before prognosticating. Now we’re excited to share some key trends in...
Five tips to supercharge your data catalog
Tips and tricks to regularly maintain, tune up, and enrich your data catalog and business glossary to give contextualized insights
