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Summer Open Data: Featured Apps and Resources
Between ice cream and longer days, summer is here. At this time of year, open information can become our best ally to plan getaways, know schedules of the bathing areas in our community or even know the state of traffic on roads that take us to our next destination.
Whether you're on the move or at…
Benefits and opportunities of public initiatives for open data visualisation
Imagine you want to know how many terraces there are in your neighbourhood, how the pollen levels in the air you breathe every day are evolving or whether recycling in your city is working well. All this information exists in your municipality's databases, but it sits in spreadsheets and technical d…
Private company data sharing initiatives: success stories
In today's digital age, data sharing and opendatahave emerged as key pillars for innovation, transparency and economic development. A number of companies and organisations around the world are adopting these approaches to foster open access to information and enhance data-driven decision making. Bel…
How to improve data visualisation: the example of the European drugs report
The European Drug Report provides a current overview of the drug situation in the region, analysing the main trends and emerging threats. It is a valuable publication, with a high number of downloads, which is quoted in many media outlets.
The report is produced annually by the Europe…
Data intermediaries and their role in the Data Governance Act
Data is a key part of Europe''s digital economy. This is recognised in the Data Strategy, which aims to create a single market that allows free movement of data in order to foster digital transformation and technological innovation. However, achieving this goal involves overcoming a number of obstac…
Our first digital navigation. Open source alternatives to Google Maps
In the vast technological landscape, few tools have made as deep a mark as Google Maps. Since its inception, this application has become the standard for finding and navigating points of interest on maps. But what happens when we look for options beyond the ubiquitous map application? In this post w…
Data visualization: the best charts for representing comparisons
Data is a valuable source of knowledge for society. Public commitment to achieving data openness, public-private collaboration on data, and the development of applications with open data are actions that are part of the data economy, which seeks the innovative, ethical, and practical use of data to…
GPT-3 chat: we programmed a data visualisation in R with the trending AI
Talking about GPT-3 these days is not the most original topic in the world, we know it. The entire technology community is publishing examples, holding events and predicting the end of the world of language and content generation as we know it today. In this post, we ask ChatGPT to help us in progra…
How to choose the right chart to visualise open data
A statistical graph is a visual representation designed to contain a series of data whose objective is to highlight a specific part of the reality. However, organising a set of data in an informative way is not an easy task, especially, if we want to capture the viewer’s attention and to present the…
The importance of Smart Data Models
In the current context, digitalisation has expanded exponentially, reaching beyond the boundaries of the private sector and consolidating itself as one of the great challenges in all productive sectors of society. This process has brought with it the massive generation of data from which to extract…
