Here is a roundup of some of the key features we released last month, December 2020 -- collection crowdsourced suggestions, new metadata and search API endpoints, and a recap on search improvements.
Here is a roundup of some of the key features we released last month, December 2020 -- collection crowdsourced suggestions, new metadata and search API endpoints, and a recap on search improvements.
Look for this new feature in upcoming data.world releases!
Here's a sneak peek of what to expect:
We are updating the way we present contributors and visibility for datasets and projects. Currently, we have a top level Access tab that controls individual access, and a Visibility section in the Settings tab that controls whether the dataset/project is open, private, or discoverable to the community. To minimize confusion and complexity, we are combining and redesigning these settings into a single pane of glass to simplify understanding and control of “who can see this resource."
This is how the experience will look from a data consumer's perspective:
This is now the experience will look from an admin's perspective:
Relevant data partners now appear at the top of some search results as featured results, making it easier to find high-quality, reliable datasets in search. Featured results are disabled for private installs.
If you’re interested in learning more about how we help teams find the right data vendors for their projects, drop us a line at concierge@data.world.
We recently added search as a feature of our public API.
These new endpoints support searching for datasets, projects, insights, queries, tables, collections, files, glossary terms, and analysis resources.
We offer two options:
We've added a full suite of metadata management endpoints to our public API!
If you need to build custom workflows, integrate with existing tool chains, or require additional flexibility in managing your catalog, head over to our API docs. We've added endpoints to manage glossary terms, analysis resources, data sources, tables, columns, and relationships.
Coming soon: Collection management APIs
Search is the primary way users look for data and analysis in data.world. Now it's even easier with simpler "status:" advanced search keyword, status tooltip hints that appear when you hover over a colored status indicator, full-text search on metadata tags, and the new Collections filter.
Here is a roundup of some of the key features we released in 2020, including search improvements, 'Collection' management UX enhancements, query log reporting, and more.
Windowed aggregations partition the results from a SQL query into groups in order to perform calculations across adjacent rows of the query result. You can read more about windowed aggregations and see examples of their usage on data.world in our SQL documentation.
Here is a list of all the new windowed functions with links to their reference pages:
Did you know a resource on data.world, like a table, business term, or dashboard, can belong to multiple collections?
We've now made it easy to pick which collections a resource belongs to: simply click "Edit" on the resource page, then pick & choose which collections the resource should appear in and save those changes.
For example, if you had a business term in a "Sales" collection, you can now easily add that same business term to your "Finance" and "Customer Service" collections with only a few clicks.
Likewise, if you wanted to move a resource from one collection to another, you can click "Edit" on the resource page, select the new collection, de-select the existing collection, and save that change.
Customers who use Open collections can create a resource in a private collection, and only when it's ready for global consumption, add it to the Open collection.
We've also recently added the ability to create collections in the UI - read more about that here.
Stay tuned for editing collections in the API, and allow collections to be edited in bulk!
Jump back to what you were working on most recently with these enhancements to our navigation and search experience. The recently viewed menu previously surfaced the datasets, projects, and profiles that you last visited. This menu now includes all of the pages where you do work in the application including queries, glossary terms, workspace tables, analysis pages, and more.
Supported pages in the recently viewed menu:
