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data.world, the U.S. Census American Community Survey, and You!

by Jonathan Ortiz | Apr 5, 2017 | Data community

data.world is excited to announce the release of a valuable data source in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau — the American Community Survey (ACS). With these 16 new Census datasets, users can enrich their analyses with the most up-to-date U.S. demographic and...

Advanced SQL

by Shad Reynolds | Mar 22, 2017 | Data catalogs

The response to the introduction of SQL at data.world has been really amazing. In a short time, SQL has become one of the primary ways that users interact with data, whether through the query UI, or through our API integrations (Python, R, Java). In response, we...

Turbocharge Your Data Acquisition using the data.world Python Library

by Josh Devlin | Mar 22, 2017 | Data catalogs

When working with data, a key part of your workflow is finding and importing datasets. Being able to quickly locate data, understand it and combine it with other sources can be difficult. One tool to help with this is data.world, where you can search for, copy,...

On Discovering Data

by Joe Boutros | Mar 15, 2017 | Data catalogs

OK… I’ll say it. Data discovery is broken. At data.world, we focus deeply on first-mile data problems like discovery, exploration, collaboration, and joining. With well over 18 million open datasets out there today, finding the perfect data for your project or...

Do State Department Travel Warnings Reflect Real Danger?

by Ian Greenleigh | Mar 9, 2017 | Data community

The New York Times recently reported that international travel demand to the U.S. “dropped 17 percent after the implementation of [President Trump’s] travel ban.” Much less attention has been paid to the government’s role in shaping travel patterns out of the U.S.,...