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You can’t build a data-driven culture without your hidden data workforce

by Ian Greenleigh | Jul 19, 2018 | Data-driven cultures

This is Part 1 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. We’re on the edge of what could be the biggest multiplier in data productivity yet. We are experiencing a paradigm shift:...

What do The Matrix and data sharing have in common?

by Tyler Durman | Jul 9, 2018 | Data-driven cultures

It’s the question that drives us. I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit at your computer. You’re looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same...

Find your data’s perfect match

by Jenny Ryan | Jun 28, 2018 | Data catalogs

“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...

Why you should distribute “data narratives” along with your data

by Tyler Durman | Jun 19, 2018 | Data-driven cultures

Welcome to another edition of our new series of micro-interviews, in which we ask a fascinating data person a single question about modern data teamwork. Here’s what we asked Ella Hilal, Ph. D, Director of Data at Shopify, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the...

Data: TED Talks ranked by persuasiveness, moral content, laughs, narcissism, and more

by Ian Greenleigh | Jun 14, 2018 | Data community

Owen Temple (@owentemple) was curious: What makes some TED Talks so persuasive? To get his answer, he applied Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to metadata and transcripts of all posted TED Talks and published Words of Persuasion: Text Predictors of...