This week's feature release includes collaborative editing and homepage updates that put your favorite reports, lists, and dashboards front and center.

If you're heading to the DataWeek + APIWorld 2014 conference next week, we hope to meet you. You can track us down by attending one of the events listed below where we'll be speaking about Mode and our philosophy.

With just over a week left before we put our white pants away (or not—who does that?), we teamed up with our friends at CrowdFlower to start building a map of outdoorsy adventures we could do this Labor Day in state and national parks across the country.

The public table API makes it easier to get your datasets into Mode using scripts written in languages like Python, Ruby, and R. Data uploaded through the API is available as tables in our public PostgreSQL data warehouse.

The world is full of interesting datasets. But even though data is increasingly accessible, it's sometimes hard think up an interesting problem to analyze. Maybe there are just too many possible questions, maybe it's a pain to set up analytical tools, or maybe it's just too easy to get distracted by animal GIFs.