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How long does a tourist visit London? And where do these tourists come from?
Travelling is a great way to relax and explore parts of the world. With the summer approaching, people are planning trips to numerous interesting places all over the globe. One of the most popular destinations of trips like these is London, both for short and long term visits. But how long are those tourists actually staying? And where do they come from? Because of the Open Data published by London on its tourists we can answer these questions. The majority of international stay for less than a week when visiting London. From the graph it can also be seen that over the years, the number of
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Is drone flying allowed everywhere?
The popularity of drones has recently taken a flight among citizens. It has become a hobby for many to fly them and discover the beautiful images from above. However, this development also creates concerns in a number of fields. As the air is an open space, drones can go everywhere and see whatever they want. Some governments are therefore working on legislation to specify where you are allowed to fly your drone and where not. For example, during the UEFA European Football Championship in France, the French government turned the stadiums and training locations into no-fly zones. The Dutch
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Where does the most downloaded data come from?
The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on portals, both national and regional/local, throughout Europe. Currently there are 71 catalogues harvested, which provide a total amount of more than 640,000 data sets. When looking at the download statistics, since the launch of the portal on 15 November 2015 the most downloaded data is from the national Open Data Portal in the UK. However, this portal is closely followed by the data portal of the European Union where all the data from the EU institutions is centralised. Data sets from portals in Poland
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Did you know this is Open Data?
Since the launch of the first smartphone, just 20 years ago, the number of smartphones has increased extremely fast. Already in the year 2013 alone, more than one billion smartphones were sold. Smartphones allow people to be online where ever and whenever they want. The increased demand to have internet available at any location has resulted in an increased demand for Wi-Fi spots as well. Now it is a requirement for hotels to have Wi-Fi, whereas before Wi-Fi was an additional feature for the more luxury hotels. The spread of Wi-Fi expands with now restaurants, gas stations and even busses
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Does the most popular data domain differ per country?
In total there are currently 597,090 data sets on the European Data Portal. To find your way in this tremendous amount of data, there are 13 different data domains in which the data sets are divided. As explained in a previous Featured data article, approximately 70% of the data sets are mapped to the data domains. When exploring the domains more closely, one can wonder whether data domains with the most data sets published in for example Greece, are also the same in for example Finland? To investigate this question, the proportion of data sets per domain is calculated per country and compared
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What can Open Data say about trends?
Berlin and London belong to the most dynamic cities in Europe. Both are capitals of two big European economies and both attract the most active, innovative people and companies. Despite these similarities the cities have a different status in their countries; London is a super-city, which is driving the whole British economy while Berlin has high political and cultural status, but does not belong to the richest cities in Germany. Unemployment trends in Germany, UK and EU This difference between cities can also be seen when the unemployment trends for both countries and cities are compared. On
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How to address privacy concerns when opening up data?
The bigger economies of the world are increasingly driven by the analysis of great amounts of data. However, data is not instantly valuable, the value resides in its (re-)use. Read more about the benefits of Open Data. Governments acknowledge this and have joined the data revolution by progressively publishing their data catalogues as Open Data, making the data accessible and reusable by everyone. However, much of the most valuable data is personal data, whose publication out in the open may threaten privacy. To find out how to harness the potential of Open Data while making sure privacy
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Use Open Data to find the best school in your region
Finding the right school is probably one of the most important decisions in many parents' lives. You would like your child to be educated in a place which provides a safe environment and offers high-quality education. Preferably, this school is located in your direct neighbourhood, and it should offer world-class facilities and the best teachers in town. But how to find schools satisfying all these criteria? Use Open Data! Open Data does not only allow parents to identify the schools in the vicinity of their house, but it could also allow parents to compare the quality of schools based on a
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Recharge your electric vehicle by using Open Data
Electrical bikes are increasingly popular in Europe. According to the latest figures, in Germany electric bicycles now account for 12.5% of the total bike sales; in Holland the e-bike market share in 2015 reached 28% of the total bike market. This figure is close to the development that is predicted for the e-bike market in Europe in the next five years. Electrical bikes have a battery on board but you still need to pedal at least some of the time. This battery has to be recharged every now and then. Cities are adapting their infrastructure to this new development, and are installing
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Which country in the EU has the most annual holidays?
Everybody can use a break once in a while to relax, spend time with their family or to travel the world. During the autumn period it is a good time to think back of the summer holidays you had and to plan the holidays for next year. Open Data allows you to compare the average annual holidays per country and to compare them with the European Union average. The table below shows the average annual holidays per country based on companies with 10 employees or more. The numbers are derived from the results of the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) which is conducted every four years, last time in