Connection Manager now supports collection of metadata from the platform user interface, enabling a faster, more consolidated way to catalog your data. We currently support collecting metadata from a number of different database sources, and we will be expanding the list of supported sources over the coming months.
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Here is a roundup of some of the key features we released last month, February 2021 -- Looker metadata support, custom metadata field default edit behavior improvements, Gra.fo enhancements, and dataset sync webhook notifications.
Status indicators, which include helpful tooltip hints when you hover, are available in many parts of the application such as search and the newsfeed. They provide quick, at-a-glance visibility of the quality, certification, or governance status around data or analysis resources. They are now also available on organization profile pages as well.
For enterprise customers, the following updated metrics have been released to your Usage and Governance Reporting (ddw-metrics-*) dataset. This was noted as coming soon here.
Events - Pageviews - Last 90 Days: This table now includes all types of pageviews, whereas previously it was filtered to only include dataset and project views. In addition, the window has been extended from 30 to 90 days.
Events - Queries: This new table is a detailed audit of query events. This was previously already available for multi-tenant customers. Going forward, it will also be available for single-tenant or virtual private customers. More details are included in the data dictionary markdown file.
Resources - Datasets: This table contains a new column called “notificationsEmail” which includes any additional email address associated with the notifications for the dataset, as set in the dataset settings.
Visits - New Users By Month: This table logic has been updated to be consistent with other metrics, namely Visits - Unique Visitors To Date and Visits - Unique Visitors - All Time List.
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Here is a roundup of some of the key features we released last month, January 2021 -- broader resource support for recently viewed resources and auto suggestions from the search bar, collection search filter/facet, collection management API, and enhanced SQL support for windowed aggregations.
We've been rolling out a series of features to make working with collections easier and more intuitive on data.world. In case you missed it, here a few recent collections related updates:
Most recently, we've released bulk editing collections, which allows you to quickly manage a large number of resources by adding and removing them from collections with just a few clicks.
Using business terms as our example, we'll start off by clicking the "triple dot" menu and selecting "Edit multiple Business terms":
Select all the resources you want to edit:
Chose "Add to existing" to add the resources to an additional collection:
Review your changes:
After confirming, you'll see a message like this:
This is a default behavior change that shows more metadata fields while in edit mode. This makes it easier to see the fields that are available for annotating, documenting, and governing catalog resources.
If you have any concerns or questions on how to manage field visibility, please reach out to your customer success representative or support@data.world and we'd be happy to assist!
For more information on this feature, see this Coming Soon post related to the change: https://whatsnew.data.world/coming-soon:-changes-to-custom-metadata-field-configurations-2UHSOA
The following update will only be available for Sites customers:
Managing data access requests takes a team - and data.world wants to make it easier for your data access request team, whether it be your data stewards, owners, or stakeholders, to make informed and timely decisions about each request.
Previously, each of the approving parties for a data access request would received a discrete, standalone email informing them of the data access request, including the customizable request access form details the user filled out.
Now, for Sites customers, we'll be sending out a single email to the approving parties, with the requesting user copied on the email.
This provides the requesting user a channel to engage further with the approving team, as well as a method for the approving team to communicate amongst themselves before rendering a decision about the request.
Let's say you have 3 administrators on the dataset, and a user requests access to the data. Previously, we'd send out 3 individual emails to each of the 3 administrators. Aside from the recipient, the emails are identical.
With our changes, we'll send out just a single email, but to 4 recipients: the 3 administrators, and the requesting user. Any of those users can reply-all, remove recipients, or add recipients in your preferred email client.
Have you ever need to create a 7-day trailing average in order to smooth out a graph? How about compare a value to the same value in the previous row?
Windowed aggregations are a powerful way to perform complex analysis, such as this, without leaving the comfort of the SQL. These functions operate on a defined group, or "window", of rows to return an aggregated value for each row. Window aggregations are supported for both uploaded tabular data, as well as live tables (where support exists in the connected database).
Note: this feature is currently in Beta. Please contact support with any issues.
