Distinct Values

You may have noticed a few changes to the discussions feature on the data.world dataset pages. During the course of our research and user interviews, discussion, documentation, and commentary about data were identified as valuable context that get lost or locked away....

I read the email three times to make sure it meant what I thought it meant. It was an unsolicited invitation to contribute a guest post to KDnuggets, one of the most popular data science blogs in the world. The editors had read about data.world, and wanted us to...

Collaboration and contribution are two of the most discussed concepts inside the data.world product team, and consequently the areas we’ve focused on the most in our user testing. A platform centered around user generated or contributed data needs to have a tight and...

One of the most important factors in the success of a platform like data.world is what we call “data liquidity”. Central to our vision for data.world is to become the first stop to answer the question: “I wonder if there is a dataset about _________?”. The social...

One thing users have expressed repeatedly in our conversations is that data is more than facts and figures—it’s about telling a story. Tables and graphs are only interesting if they build to actionable insights. These stories are increasingly being created in Jupyter...