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How open data induces financial firms to compete on quality (an interview with Bloomberg’s Richard Robinson)

by Len Fishman | Aug 15, 2017 | Data community

To date, businesses have primarily seen open data as an asset that could create value for consumers and themselves. Our understanding of the weather (The Weather Company), neighborhoods and real estate (Zillow/Trulia), and family genealogy (Ancestry.com) are largely...

Introducing the Data Inspector

by Brad Pettigrew | Aug 9, 2017 | Data catalogs

Be honest: how long do you spend combing for missing values, scrubbing erroneous outliers, and coercing columns into a uniform format just to get to the analysis you want to do? There’s no question data quality and consistency are crucial, but manually verifying this...

The Incredible Challenge and Joy of Building the data.world Community

by Brett Hurt | Jul 18, 2017 | Data community

On July 11, 2016, we launched data.world to the public. Before that date, we were in stealth mode with only this quote on our home page: If the universe of data were suddenly made available, it would unleash the creativity of problem-solvers to combine different data...

Introducing Data Projects

by Joe Boutros | Jul 11, 2017 | Data catalogs

When we launched data.world, we knew that the most significant problem in our crosshairs was how to make the first mile of data work more manageable: finding, exploring, and contextualizing data, all while making it effortless to slice, dice, and join using the power...

Supporting Advanced Visualization Sharing at data.world

by Jon Loyens | Jun 30, 2017 | Data catalogs

Our intent at data.world has always been to build an amazing platform to share your data and analysis and collaborate with your colleagues and peers on your data projects. In order to do this, a core piece of our product strategy is to provide amazing APIs and SDKs...