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  Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, data on infection rates, hospital occupancies and death tolls has been indispensable to guide governments´ actions. From visualising the evolution of the vaccination rate in France to tracking the economic and social…

  On 2 May 2022, the report “Principles and recommendations to make data.europa.eu data more reusable - A strategy-mapping report” was published. This report summarises the research done on the mid- and long-term sustainability of (open) data portal…

  On 9 May 1950, the signing of the Schuman Declaration marked the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. It was the first in a series of supranational European institutions that would ultimately lead to the European Union. To commemorate…

  At the end of March, Eurostat released a new interactive visualisation tool to show relevant statistics on the European Green Deal, one of the six European Commission priorities for 2019 – 2024. With the European Green Deal, the Commission aims at…

  Whether consciously by submitting an entry in Wikidata or unconsciously by validating a ticket on a means of public transport, citizens´ generate enormous amounts of data every day. Yet, this citizen-generated data is not widely available on data.…

  On 23 April 2022, the European Parliament and EU Member States agreed on a proposal of the Digital Services Act (DSA), an unprecedented new standard for the accountability of online platforms regarding illegal and harmful content. Proposed by the…

In a previous news item, we reported on the United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Operational Data Portal and their work tracking refugees fleeing Ukraine. While much media attention is on this critical situation, people fleeing conflict remains a…

‘The European Green Deal’, ‘Transparency in public procurement’, ‘EU public procurement opportunities for young people’ and ‘A Europe fit for the digital age’, these are four challenges put forward for this year´s edition of EU Datathon. The call for…

Open data helps solve real-world problems, but the nature of open data means that it represents only a subset of information. For example, data collected as a part of any student’s education can be sensitive and some institutions want to maintain control…

Countless users rely on real-time data to understand whether it will rain in the next 30 minutes or to check gasoline prices before filling their cars on the way to work. These dynamic datasets can even save lives, such as with weather and flood warnings…