opendata.lv Case Study - Promote Open Data with Analytics and Visualizations
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This case study promotes opening up government data through analytics and visualizations to make the information more engaging and reusable. It suggests crawling Latvian government websites to publish analytical reports and dashboards using open data from sources like election donations, university applications, and traffic accidents. The main challenges are a lack of awareness about open data in the country, data published in undocumented XMLs or PDFs instead of open formats, and no regulations around open data.
opendata.lv Case Study - Promote Open Data with Analytics and Visualizations
- 1. Case Study Promote Open Data with Analytics and Visualizations Raimonds Simanovskis .com github.com/rsim @rsim
- 2. Typical <insert any country> government data web sites...
- 8. Boring... Non interactive... Hard to reuse...
- 9. But when presented as nice visualizations...
- 13. Much more sexy and fun to explore :)
- 14. Download source data or crawl Latvian government web sites and publish analytical reports and dashboards using .com
- 15. Examples Parliament election Donations to parties Applications to universities Road traf鍖c accidents
- 16. Main issues no awareness about Open Data, no regulations, nobody cares XMLs without documentation, sometimes paginated HTMLs, sometimes PDFs
- 17. Free to use for public data