Datasets Digest | Spring 2017

Datasets Digest | Spring 2017

Spring was an exciting time here at data.world, with featured datasets ranging from SXSW Twitter Traffic and March Madness Predictions to…
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Sanjana Jhaveri
Data as art: the key to our identity

Data as art: the key to our identity

“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?”
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Gabriela Swider
Which Countries Live Within Their (Ecological) Means?

Which Countries Live Within Their (Ecological) Means?

In 1970, people first used more environmental resources than the world could produce.
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Gabriela Swider
Linking lobbyists and Chicago legislators

Linking lobbyists and Chicago legislators

A collaboration between Data for Democracy and data.world
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Sharon Brener
Escape hatch for the echo chamber: an interview with Dan Wagner

Escape hatch for the echo chamber: an interview with Dan Wagner

The day the polls were all wrong
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Gabriela Swider
Do State Department Travel Warnings Reflect Real Danger?

Do State Department Travel Warnings Reflect Real Danger?

The New York Times recently reported that international travel demand to the U.S. “dropped 17 percent after the implementation of…
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Ian Greenleigh
Agent of Openness

Agent of Openness

An agent of openness is called to action
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Noah Rippner

Localizing data, quantifying stories, and showing your work at The Associated Press (an interview…

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…
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Ian Greenleigh
Partnering with Open Knowledge to support Open Data Day

Partnering with Open Knowledge to support Open Data Day

This blog post was originally posted on the Open Knowledge International Blog on February 21, 2017.
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Len Fishman
Datasets Digest: GitHub source code names | pedal cycle crashes in Austin | earthquakes in Ecuador

Datasets Digest: GitHub source code names | pedal cycle crashes in Austin | earthquakes in Ecuador

For this week’s Digest, we’re shaking things up with data on GitHub source code, pedal cycle crashes in Austin, and earthquakes in Ecuador.
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Gabriela Swider
Datasets Digest: gender identity | terrorism in the U.S. | Quora questions

Datasets Digest: gender identity | terrorism in the U.S. | Quora questions

This week’s Digest features datasets with active discussions and contributors seeking your feedback. Join the conversation or request to be…
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Dashiel Lopez Mendez
Datasets Digest: history of the Super Bowl | Corruption Perceptions Index | SBIR/STTR data

Datasets Digest: history of the Super Bowl | Corruption Perceptions Index | SBIR/STTR data

Brush up on your knowledge of Super Bowl history, learn about perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide, and view Small…
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Gabriela Swider
Datasets Digest: declassified CIA data | women’s march crowd sizes | tweets on Women’s March and…

Datasets Digest: declassified CIA data | women’s march crowd sizes | tweets on Women’s March and…

930,000 declassified CIA documents from CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) were digitally released in January 2017. data.world is collecting…
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Selene

Special Datasets Digest: Data for Democracy

This week we’re highlighting datasets from Data for Democracy, a quickly growing community of data people volunteering on social impact…
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Gabriela Swider

Datasets Digest: OPEC Basket prices | U.S.

Join us for this week’s Digest, as we explore data on petroleum prices, immigration statistics and military surplus acquisitions!
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Dashiel Lopez Mendez
Datasets Digest: Department Store Sales | NBA players’ birthplaces | Game of Thrones deaths

Datasets Digest: Department Store Sales | NBA players’ birthplaces | Game of Thrones deaths

Happy New Year! For our first Datasets Digest of 2017 we’re bringing you datasets with some sweet data visualizations. Winter is coming, so…
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Selene
Datasets Digest: celebrity deaths | ACA state data | USDA nutritional data

Datasets Digest: celebrity deaths | ACA state data | USDA nutritional data

For our last Digest of 2016, we bring you an homage to the celebrities who passed this year, some new insights into the outcomes of…
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Gabriela Swider
What the data REALLY says about urban and rural Americans and how they voted

What the data REALLY says about urban and rural Americans and how they voted

“The Great Urban-Rural Divide”
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Gary Hoover
Special Datasets Digest: DoD Theater History of Operations data

Special Datasets Digest: DoD Theater History of Operations data

Today, we’re announcing the debut of never-before-released Department of Defense (DoD) data.
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Noah Rippner
Datasets Digest: sea level change trends | HackerNews most popular stories | U.S. worker fatalities

Datasets Digest: sea level change trends | HackerNews most popular stories | U.S. worker fatalities

Today, we’re rounding out your week with three newly created datasets on some hot and interesting topics. Check these out to learn the…
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Dashiel Lopez Mendez
6 things we learned from the most comprehensive Product Hunt API dataset ever

6 things we learned from the most comprehensive Product Hunt API dataset ever

It’s not the dataset, it’s what you learn from it.
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Jonathan Ortiz
Datasets Digest: marijuana legalization | veteran demographics | radio play predictions

Datasets Digest: marijuana legalization | veteran demographics | radio play predictions

America had an eventful and emotional week, to say the least. Apart from the election, this week also saw expanded legal access to…
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Gabriela Swider
Datasets Digest: witchcraft accusations, Chicago crime, cats and dogs

Datasets Digest: witchcraft accusations, Chicago crime, cats and dogs

The fall has been cursed by accusations ranging from foreign government hacking to election rigging. Fortunately, the candidates haven’t…
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Ian Greenleigh
Data donation: What’s at stake?

Data donation: What’s at stake?

by Brett Hurt and Ian Greenleigh
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Brett Hurt
Jonathon Morgan on the data of extremism, exploratory visualization, and modeling complex human…

Jonathon Morgan on the data of extremism, exploratory visualization, and modeling complex human…

Much of the data Jonathon Morgan looks at these days is not for the faint of heart. Armed militias, delusional belief in a rigged election…
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Ian Greenleigh
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