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What is Silk.co? Social Data. Silk is a place to explore the world through data. Each Silk contains data on a specific topic. Silk displays data as beautiful interactive charts, maps and web pages.

5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Nonprofits are often wary of creating their own data visualizations, and for valid reasons. Setting up such a project can require a team of…
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Sarah Aoun
May 12, 2016
Exposing The World’s Superrich: GDP, Gender, And Political Ties

Exposing The World’s Superrich: GDP, Gender, And Political Ties

The Peterson Institute for International Economics compiled one of the most extensive datasets yet on over 2000 billionaires from all over…
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Caspar Egas
Mar 24, 2016
Latest Data Reveals the Actual Size of The Gender Gap at the Academy Awards

Latest Data Reveals the Actual Size of The Gender Gap at the Academy Awards

A data-driven analysis of gender representation in 88 years of Oscars
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Alice Corona
Feb 24, 2016
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Choosing A VPN? Be Careful! Here’s Why.

Choosing A VPN? Be Careful! Here’s Why.

Virtual Private Networks allow you to access the Internet in a more secure way. More and more people rely on VPNs for a number of reasons…
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Alice Corona
Feb 2, 2016
Hack Your Career: How to Use Data to Monitor Job Markets

Hack Your Career: How to Use Data to Monitor Job Markets

I recently gave a tutorial on how monitor job markets by scraping data from AngelList and pushing it into the data publishing platform…
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Alice Corona
Jan 26, 2016
Analyzing Tesla’s Supercharger Locations

Analyzing Tesla’s Supercharger Locations

As one of the earlier execs at PayPal, entrepreneur Elon Musk understands the value of networks and how to solve the “Chicken-and-Egg”…
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AlexSalkever
Jan 18, 2016
Number of U.S. drone strike victims in Pakistan: 2,500–4000. Number of Fair Trials: 0

Number of U.S. drone strike victims in Pakistan: 2,500–4000. Number of Fair Trials: 0

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Alice Corona
Jan 7, 2016
Open Data Lost Ground in 2015: An Analysis of the 2015 OKFN Open Data Index

Open Data Lost Ground in 2015: An Analysis of the 2015 OKFN Open Data Index

The Open Knowledge Foundation just published the 2015 edition of its Open Data Index. The Index “provides the most comprehensive snapshot…
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Alice Corona
Dec 23, 2015
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