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On Discovering Data

by Joe Boutros | Mar 15, 2017 | Data catalogs

OK… I’ll say it. Data discovery is broken. At data.world, we focus deeply on first-mile data problems like discovery, exploration, collaboration, and joining. With well over 18 million open datasets out there today, finding the perfect data for your project or...

Do State Department Travel Warnings Reflect Real Danger?

by Ian Greenleigh | Mar 9, 2017 | Data community

The New York Times recently reported that international travel demand to the U.S. “dropped 17 percent after the implementation of [President Trump’s] travel ban.” Much less attention has been paid to the government’s role in shaping travel patterns out of the U.S.,...

Agent of Openness

by Noah Rippner | Mar 7, 2017 | Data-driven cultures

An agent of openness is called to action There was a time when Albert Bowden could never have imagined being where he is today. In 2008, as a front-end developer focused primarily on improving his skill as a web programmer, he built things on the web but gave little...

Localizing data, quantifying stories, and showing your work at The Associated Press (an interview with Troy Thibodeaux)

by Ian Greenleigh | Mar 3, 2017 | Data community

If we’re lucky, data journalism, as a distinct and rare focus within journalism, is not long for this world. This is the effect of democratization. When technical skills begin to take hold in any industry, a familiar pattern plays out. Because of high barriers to...

Try this: Frictionless data.world

by Bryon Jacob | Feb 27, 2017 | Data catalogs

A big part of our mission at data.world is to bring down barriers to data access — and in that spirit we are big fans of what the folks at Open Knowledge International are doing with Frictionless Data. In particular, the Tabular Data Package specification defines a...