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Try This: File Hot Links

by Rafael Pereira | Feb 7, 2017 | Data catalogs

As a data.world user, imagine that you want to supplement a dataset with results from an online survey. Now, if you wanted to keep your dataset up-to-date with the latest responses, what would you do? Could you upload files manually to data.world as many times as...

JSON Exposed!

by Shad Reynolds | Jan 31, 2017 | Data catalogs

Introducing native support for JSON on data.world In recent years JSON has become the primary format for data exchange on the Internet. If you’ve queried data from an API on the web, or dug into your browser’s console, chances are you’ve seen it. JSON is great for...

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...