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Finding your way with Collective Data Empowerment
This is Part 4 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. You are in a dark forest. Above, the dense canopy of limbs and leaves hides the sun’s position. Your phone died miles ago....
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Visual analytics expert Andy Cotgreave on why analytics teams need liberal arts, why Chief Data…
“But now we’ve realized that, well hang on, if you’re gonna build a driverless car, how does the car interact with the humans on the road? And that is not an engineering challenge, that is a liberal arts challenge because you’re looking at the world of philosophy,...
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3 new efficiency hacks your data team will love
I know this post’s title isn’t an exaggeration because at data.world, we use our own product. Extensively. And when these three features were debuted one Friday afternoon, they were literally given standing ovations. In case you missed them, here are three of our...
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Analytics evangelist Ann Jackson on being the voice of data, overcoming imposter syndrome, and setting aside intuition
Ann Jackson popped onto my radar when several colleagues shared her blog post “Aiming for data-driven? Don’t forget the people.” It was one of those tabs you keep open after reading because you know you have to do something with it, but you’re not sure what. Here’s...
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16 patterns you see in pre-data-driven companies
This is Part 3 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. Think about a challenge your company faces. Who among your colleagues knows the most about it? Who has the most experience...
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The high stakes and staggering opportunity of data-driven culture
This is Part 2 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. The world looks different from an airplane window. You notice things you can’t see from the ground: the way power lines cut...
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Two incredible years at data.world
On July 11 we celebrated the second year anniversary of data.world’s launch. We had a great time at SPiN in the first ever OWL Cup (the ping-pong championship) during the same week as the World Cup in the finals. It was a real upset, and you should ask us about it (as...
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You can’t build a data-driven culture without your hidden data workforce
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: the shift from Selective Data Empowerment...
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What do The Matrix and data sharing have in common?
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...
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Find your data’s perfect match
“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...
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data.world customers have used these very tactics to successfully implement their own data catalogs.
The Associated Press
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How Linked Data Creates Data Cultures
Prepare for a new understanding of what’s possible. Linked Data changes everything.
Collective Data Empowerment
How to make everyone more productive with data—not just the data elite.