Citylab Congressional Density Index

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This is a really interesting dataset that includes not only the data, but some informative R scripts and visualizations. Citylab classified every US Congressional district based on the density of neighborhoods contained. They also included their methodology if you’d like to dig even deeper.

5. INC 5000 2018
INC Magazine continues to publish tons of really interesting content. In this case they have published the data behind their top 5000 fastest growing companies. The file includes Name, State, revenue and many other salient details. Should be a great resource if you are looking for corporate data.

4. Social Media Bot Detection by Paragon Science
There has been a lot of discussion about how large groups of automated accounts (bots) on social media may have had an impact, or propagated disinformation, on current events. This includes everything from the 2016 US Presidential election to sentiment around the NFL. Dr. Steve Kramer has applied techniques from complexity theory, network graph analysis, and others to take a really detailed look at this phenomena. For more on his methodology you can read his piece on O’Reilly.

3. NFA 2018 National Footprint Accounts
The Global Footprint Network has published their findings for the 2017 National Footprint Accounts. This data “measure[s] the ecological resource use and resource capacity of nations from 1961 to 2014. The calculations in the National Footprint Accounts are primarily based on United Nations data sets, including those published by brazil whatsapp number data the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, and the UN Statistics Division, as well as the International Energy Agency. The 2018 edition of the NFA features some exciting updates from last year’s 2017 edition, including data for more countries and improved data sources and methodology.” For a more detailed explanation check out their explainer video.

2. Makeover Monday Big Mac Index
Makeover Monday continues to be a very active and popular community for both data.world users and the broader data visualization community. Each week Makeover Monday publishes a dataset and associated viz for people to rework or reenvision. The most popular of their weeks was week 31 this year, looking at the Big Mac Index. Stop by sometime soon to try your hand at a Makeover Monday viz!

1. Artificial Intelligence - Global Community Mapping
This summer, data.world was able to host a researcher from TechNation for a secondment to look at the global AI community. Henri Egle Sorotos did a fantastic job looking at this community and sharing the associated data. Take a look at his summary blog or dive in to the full report!

With the sheer number of open datasets and users being added every day, our team can’t wait to see what 2019 will bring. A huge thank you to the data.world community for all of your data, your research, and your openness. See you in 2019!