Adopt a Dataset: Your Dashboard Now Tracks the Data You Use
By glitchdata Team 2 min read
Most people use far more data than they publish. Until now, glitchdata only kept track of the second kind. That changes today.
Adopt a Dataset
Every live dataset page now has an Adopt button next to Like. Adopting adds the dataset to your dashboard, in an Adopted list under your own datasets, so the data your work depends on is one click away. It doesn't change the dataset or make you its owner, and choosing it again removes it. The number next to the button shows how many people have adopted it — a useful signal of what the community actually relies on.
If an adopted dataset is later taken down, it stays in your list marked No longer public rather than silently disappearing, so you know to look for an alternative.
A Dashboard Built Around Your Work
The dashboard has been redesigned around three sections:
- My Datasets — the datasets you publish, those of your organisations (marked via the organisation), and the ones you've adopted.
- My Models — the models you and your organisations publish.
- My Courses — courses in progress with a progress bar and a Continue button that takes you straight to your next unfinished lesson, then the ones you've completed and a few recommendations.
At the top, six tiles summarise it all: datasets and models with how many are live, downloads and likes on your work, and your course progress.
Nothing Slips Through
When an admin reviews one of your submissions and asks for changes, it now appears first, under Needs your attention, with the admin's note. Edit it, save, and it goes back for review.
Why It Matters
A dashboard should answer "what do I need to look at?" in a glance. Bringing together what you publish, what you use and what you're learning — and flagging what's waiting on you — makes glitchdata somewhere you return to, not just somewhere you search.