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Linking lobbyists and Chicago legislators

by Sharon Brener | Apr 13, 2017 | Data community

A collaboration between Data for Democracy and data.world Our final visualization. Read on to see how we made it! Bribery, extortion, and wire fraud. Those are the charges filed against Willie Cochran, a Chicago alderman accused of stealing “at least $30,000...

Escape hatch for the echo chamber: an interview with Dan Wagner

by Gabriela Swider | Apr 11, 2017 | Data-driven cultures

Data-driven discourse has the power to break down the silos that separate us. It is the escape hatch for the echo chamber. The day the polls were all wrong The thesis of WIRED’s June 2016 article “The Polls Are All Wrong” seemed hyperbolic at the time. Then November...

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,...