The increase of both open and private data helps enrich data visualizations

In order to gain greater insight into the actions and patterns of their customers and constituents, organizations need to turn to sources outside of their own proprietary data.

Luckily for data scientists, more and more data becomes available every day, and we can expect the trend of increased availability to continue into 2018.

Data.gov, the United States Federal Government’s open data site, boasts data sets from 43 US states, 47 cities and counties and 53 other nations. In June, Forbes identified 85 US cities that have their own data portals.

We recently published a list of 40 open data projects, from transportation and accountability to performance management and IoT.