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A few years ago, a mid-sized retail brand had everything in place: trendy products, a loyal customer base, and an ambitious expansion plan. Yet sales plateaued. Their shelves were stocked with items no one wanted, ad campaigns missed the mark, and supply chain hiccups ate into profits.

Most data projects fail long before the first line of code is written, because the wrong dataset was chosen.

As of 2025, companies are generating more data than ever before, but most data is clogged in a mess of dashboards, silos, and failing pipelines. The result? Teams get massive amounts of data, but are starving for insights.

Data is everywhere, but not all of it can be trusted. Every day, businesses and researchers leverage open datasets to inform AI models, reports, and decisions.

Element Data today announced the launch of its World Bank Global Education Statistics datasets and visualizations as a prebuilt solution for the Government & Education Data Cloud, launched by Snowflake, the Data Cloud company.