background preloader

Open Data

Facebook Twitter

OpenBook. Public Data Explorer. Eurostat, Indicateurs démographiques Eurostat Indicateurs démographiques annuels.

Public Data Explorer

Ce jeu de données a été préparé par Google à partir de données téléchargées depuis le site d'Eurostat. Chômage en Europe (données mensuelles) données sur le chômage harmonisé pour les pays européens. Salaire minimum en Europe Salaire mensuel brut minimum en euros ou parités de pouvoir d'achat, données semi-annuelles. Dette publique en Europe Statistiques sur les finances publiques des pays européens. Transport routier en Europe Statistiques du transport routier pour les pays européens. New open data platform launches. Open data is everywhere.

New open data platform launches

However, open data initiatives often manifest as mere CSV dumps on a forlorn web page. Junar, Lunfardo (Argentina slang) for "to know" or "to view," seeks to help government and organizations take the guesswork out of developing their own software for such efforts. Their open data platform allows organizations to collect and select their data, publish it, create reports and dashboards, and share their data online. The solution can be hosted or integrated into the organization's website, and the data can be made open or for internal use only.

End users can "follow" live data on the site, download it, or embed it. Junar looks like it's ready to fill the gap in open data publishing with its soup to nuts approach. Junar · The Open Data Platform. 30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web. Finding an interesting data set and a story it tells can be the most difficult part of producing an infographic or data visualization.

30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web

Data visualization is the end artifact, but it involves multiple steps – finding reliable data, getting the data in the right format, cleaning it up (an often underestimated step in the amount of time it takes!) And then finding the story you will eventually visualize. Following is a list useful resources for finding data. Your needs will vary from one project to another, but this list is a great place to start — and bookmark. 1. Data.gov: This is the go-to resource for government-related data. 2. These are the places that house data from all kinds of sources. 3. Usually, the best place to get social data for an API is the site itself: Instagram, GetGlue, Foursquare, pretty much all social media sites have their own API’s.

There's a wealth of data out there – why not let us use it? Bad things happen when problems are protected by a forcefield of tediousness.

There's a wealth of data out there – why not let us use it?

Here is an example. Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it. The government has lots of data that has already been collected, because it has needed it to run the country properly: simple stuff like maps, postcode areas, land ownership, procurement data, endless weather readings, and so on. Right now a fight is happening in Whitehall, with two factions in government: one group thinks we should give this data away for free, as a matter of principle, because it will make good things happen; the other thinks we should restrict access, and sell it. A consultation is under way. As things stand, much everyday government data is locked down so hard that nerds are forbidden to repurpose it. There are areas where access is won by the shame of a simple moral argument. Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age. Open Data. Données publiques / Open Data.

Base de données. L'opendata. Cartographie de l’information : gadget ou outil d’entreprise ? » Les points de même couleur et proches représentent des individus ayant des similarités (lieu de travail, entreprise par exemple) et / ou partageant un ensemble contacts en commun.

Cartographie de l’information : gadget ou outil d’entreprise ? »

Alors que l’on parle souvent de surabondance de l’information et que l’on cherche des remèdes pour diminuer ou minimiser ce flux d’information, la cartographie peut être un premier élément de réponse. Sans résoudre le fond du problème – s’il en est vraiment un – la cartographie de l’information dispose de plusieurs atouts face à des stocks et des flux d’information qui sont de plus en plus importants. Tout d’abord, la cartographie de l’information structure l’information. Qu’il s’agisse de clusteriser l’information pour « découvrir » des groupes de documents, d’objets qui ont des similarités ou bien de construire des arborescences documentaires parfois complexes, sur plusieurs niveaux et parfois imbriquées les unes dans les autres, la cartographie peut apporter un premier niveau de solution.

Europe: PublicData.eu. HK: Data Download. CKAN – the Open Source Data Portal Software. Socrata.