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Don’t Forget the License

by Selene Arrazolo | Nov 7, 2017 | Data community

Before starting my career in the tech world I managed art collections, physically and digitally. I studied Art History so I got a kick out of (i.e. was completely in awe of) handling Picassos or getting close enough to a Man Ray print to document its every physical...

The 5 Things Open Data Publishers are Doing to Keep their Data Closed

by Selene Arrazolo | Nov 7, 2017 | Data-driven cultures

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...

Stop emailing spreadsheets!

by Jon Loyens | Nov 7, 2017 | Data catalogs

Hey data people, how many times has this happened to you? You have a hunch about something impacting your business, maybe there’s a region with declining sales or maybe you think there’s some nefarious activity on your website that’s skewing numbers, so you email your...

The (near) future of data is linked

by Bryon Jacob | Oct 19, 2017 | Data-driven cultures

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...

Linked data on data.world

by Bryon Jacob | Oct 19, 2017 | Data catalogs

At data.world, we strongly believe that the (near) future of data is linked — that in order to maximize data’s potential in enabling humans and computers to solve the world’s biggest problems, we need to connect data according to the principles of Linked Data....