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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…
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…
How to present open data accessibly
Open data should be inherently accessible, meaning it must be available for free and without barriers that could restrict access and reuse. Accessibility is a fundamental and complex issue because it means that these data sets should not only be available in reusable formats but also that anyone sho…
Big Data Test Infrastructure: A free environment for public administrations to experiment with open data
The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a tool funded by the European Digital Agenda, which enables public administrations to perform analysis with open data and open source tools in order to drive innovation.
This free-to-use, cloud-based tool was created in 2019 to accelerate d…
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…
European Webinars: Open Data to Drive the Economy and Democracy in Europe
Open data is a highly valuable source of knowledge for our society. Thanks to it, applications can be created that contribute to social development and solutions that help shape Europe's digital future and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The European Open Data portal (data.europe.e…
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…
From the legal perspective of open data to the importance of its re-use: 15 data.europa.eu webinars to broaden your knowledge
Over the past year, the academic section of data.europa.eu expanded its open data training offer by publishing new conferences, courses and workshops. Thus, data.europa.academy shared a total of 15 webinars related to open data, data spaces and other topics and technical issues around the data econo…
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…
