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What the data REALLY says about urban and rural Americans and how they voted

by Gary Hoover | Dec 21, 2016 | Data community

“The Great Urban-Rural Divide” If there is an urban-rural divide in American politics, it is far more pronounced in post-election headlines and quotes from anonymous party insiders than it is on the ground — or in the data. The Atlantic’s Ronald Brownstein pointed to...

APIs at data.world

by Shad Reynolds | Dec 5, 2016 | Data catalogs

UPDATE: Official documentation is here: docs.data.world/documentation/api/ The last week has been a real whirlwind. Early in the week, our cofounder Jon Loyens was interviewed on the Partially Derivative podcast. Then on Friday, we were featured on Product Hunt....

Data donation: What’s at stake?

by Brett Hurt | Oct 30, 2016 | Data-driven cultures

If your company had data that could help save lives, or feed the hungry, or slow global warming, or impact society in any significant way, what would you do with it? How many critical initiatives — and potential solutions to humanity’s biggest problems — die on the...

Jonathon Morgan on the data of extremism, exploratory visualization, and modeling complex human behaviors

by Ian Greenleigh | Oct 27, 2016 | Data community

Total militia group FB comments responding to Trumps “election is rigged” claims, by state. Get the data Much of the data Jonathon Morgan looks at these days is not for the faint of heart. Armed militias, delusional belief in a rigged election, white nationalism, Nazi...

30 Years of SQL

by Shad Reynolds | Oct 19, 2016 | Data catalogs

Perhaps hard to believe, but SQL is celebrating it’s 30th birthday! Top Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Legend of Zelda, and Structured Query Language (or SQL)—were all released in 1986. What a year… So, what better way to celebrate than to enable SQL querying in...