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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...

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...