#data discoverability

Abstract Despite the exponential growth of publicly available scientific and scholarly databases, the lack of centralized, user-friendly access to these resources remains a persistent barrier for students, researchers, educators, and independent learners. This paper outlines the rationale for curating a comprehensive, categorized list of publicly accessible databases across scientific and…

Abstract Despite the exponential growth of publicly available scientific and scholarly databases, the lack of centralized, user-friendly access to these resources remains a persistent barrier for students, researchers, educators, and independent learners. This paper outlines the rationale for curating a comprehensive, categorized list of publicly accessible databases across scientific and…

When redesigning data.blog, our primary goal was to make it easier for readers to find great content. One of the ways readers do this, is using the site taxonomy – the categories and tags that are used to organize the blog posts on the site. As data.blog grew over the past 8 years, we accumulated an excessive number of categories and tags. To address this issue and enhance content…

I’m excited to announce that the new data.blog is now live! This is the first visual/UX/logo/color refresh since the original site was built 10 years ago. Why the Redesign? Our original data.blog was like a brilliant but cluttered data scientist’s desk. Valuable insights were everywhere, but it was not always easy to find what you needed. After analyzing our metrics and discussing usage…

It is well known that, at Automattic, we love free and open source software. In fact, we have Automatticians actively contributing to a multitude of open source projects, with the main one being of course: WordPress. That’s why, as soon as we verified that the current versions of Apache Superset are robust enough to satisfy many of our data visualization needs, we proceeded to install an instance…

As an organization that relies on data in their operations, Automattic needed a good way to make its data catalog searchable and accessible to anyone in the company. At first, we considered using external, already-available tools, such as Avrodoc (which we actually implemented) or Amundsen. While this might have reduced development time, we also saw a couple of important drawbacks: I can’t find…