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GeoParquet 1.0.0: new format for more efficient access to spatial data
Cloud data storage is currently one of the fastest growing segments of enterprise software, which is facilitating the incorporation of a large number of new users into the field of analytics.
As we introduced in a previous post, a new format, Parquet, has among its…
Data activism: an increasingly relevant practice in the age of platforms
Data activism is an increasingly significant citizen practice in the platform era for its growing contribution to democracy, social justice and rights. It is an activism that uses data and data analysis to generate evidence and visualisations with the aim of revealing injustices, improving peop…
Why should you use Parquet files if you process a lot of data?
It's been a long time since we first heard about the Apache Hadoop ecosystem for distributed data processing. Things have changed a lot since then, and we now use higher-level tools to build solutions based on big data payloads. However, it is important to highlight some best practices related to ou…
Trends in open data around the world
In view of the series of current and future trends around the future of open data indicated in our report, we wanted to check to what extent these - or similar - trends are already present in the global open data community. To this end, we have verified the current activities and future plans of sev…