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Finding the Sweet Spot Between Innovation and Intrusion in Personal Data

by Sanjana Jhaveri | Jun 27, 2017 | Data community

Striking a balance With the potential to inspire business opportunities, unlock insights in advanced medical research, and uncover solutions for providing smarter public services, open data is at the forefront of today’s public discourse. More and more, by analyzing...

Civic Data Wrangling: in R and on data.world

by Joe Boutros | May 31, 2017 | Data catalogs

Originally posted on RViews One of the most valuable things I have learned working on Data for Democracy’s Medicare drug spending project has been the value of collaborative tools. It has been my first in-depth experience using Github collaboratively, for one, but it...

Data as art: the key to our identity

by Gabriela Swider | May 30, 2017 | Data community

“What if we look back at this decade and think: this is the moment when we started to sort out what data meant to us?” Laurie Frick believes we’re living this moment right now. As a Data Artist, Laurie explores the intersection of data and design. She is forging a new...

The Best Of Both Worlds: Joining Online And Local Datasets With Apache Drill

by Charles Givre | May 16, 2017 | Data catalogs

data.world is rapidly establishing itself as the premier site for data scientists and analysts to host and collaborate on datasets. I have been impressed with data.world’s growth and interested in starting to use the platform in my professional projects. On...

Which Countries Live Within Their (Ecological) Means?

by Gabriela Swider | Apr 27, 2017 | Data community

In 1970, people first used more environmental resources than the world could produce. The gap between demand and nature’s ability to meet that demand has grown steadily since then. Each year we live in ecological deficit–taking more than can be replenished–we draw...