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Data: from collection to impact
Through a well-functioning Data Value Chain raw data is transformed into value: from data generation, aggregation, analysis and distribution to the creation of final products and services. The first step in the value chain is to create data. The data is then validated and released, after which it can be aggregated and analysed. By aggregating different data sets, new insights can be used for better decision-making or new products or services. Throughout this process various actors can be involved, and different challenges appear, often due to volume, velocity, and variety of data. The concept
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Sharing research data in Europe
Science Europe and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) are exploring ways to establish requirements on how to manage and share research data in Europe. The aim of the initiative is to improve data openness, re-usability and cross-domain exchangeability. It advocates the voluntary international alignment of research to unify research data management policies. On this basis, more specific policies can be developed. On 30 January 2018, Science Europe and NWO, co-hosted a workshop in Brussels with over a hundred interested participants from the EU institutions, research
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Which country in Europe provides what kind of social protection?
The Mutual Information System on Social Protection (MISSOC) is a platform where data about national social protection structures is collected and visualised. 32 countries can be compared in 12 categories. Users can easily find and compare information on for example the social protection structure for maternity or health care in different countries in Europe. Additionally, the internet addresses of the ministries responsible for social protection and other important institutions are provided. The information is updated on a biannual basis with information validated by the MISSOC network of
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Open Data on wildlife can support conservation
With the advent of the Internet of Things we are getting used to the fact that almost everything can generate data, from mobile devices and cars to shoes and refrigerators. Less prominent, although unjustly, is the use of data in wildlife conservation. Generating, processing and sharing data about the numbers and the location of endangered species can help to protect and conserve animal population.Despite the numerous benefits and success stories, there are cases in which experts decided not to open wildlife data to prevent poachers and enthusiasts to endanger the animals. Wildlife specialists
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Do most people live in big cities?
The project Diving into Urban-Rural Prejudice compiled information on what people from villages, towns and cities think about different aspects of life in these different surroundings. Survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and from the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) was analysed and clustered in categories from city dwellers to villagers. Thereby the team was able to point out a few conspicuous differences between urban and rural areas. On their website visitors can test their knowledge about characteristics of life in villages, towns and cities. In a quiz, users can
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The stories behind a line
Federica Fragapane and Alex Piacentini founded the initiative The Stories Behind a Line. The project tells the stories of six asylum seekers and their journey from their hometown to Italy. Instead of using pictures or writing long texts, the two information designers chose to visualise simple data: kilometres, days, modes of transportation, location. These combined data, visualised in an interactive line, shows the path these six young people took, crossing continents and oceans to arrive in Italy. The initiative is a valuable example of the communicative potential of data and data
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Open Data and collective intelligence
Thanks to rising awareness for Open Data and to the work of communities, public bodies, journalists, data experts, developers and many more organisations and individuals, more and more large amounts of data are open for re-use. These achievements make it possible and vital to investigate how the impact of Open Data can be further improved. Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence are increasingly named when it comes to a promising future of data re-use. Cristina Sarasua from the Digital Society Initiative of University of Zurich advocates for collective intelligence, a
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Newsworthy
A team of leading data journalists and a PhD student in statistics automated the process of finding news in data. Newsworthy re-uses Open Data to help local reporters find stories in data. Monitoring statistical databases with bayesian statistical models allows to process haystacks of data to find the interesting needles. Newsworthy notifies subscribers when it finds local trends and anomalies in data: a theft peak, a new trend in housing prices or a temperature record. These so called newsleads will be sent to subscribers presented in a short text, a chart and an excel sheet with underlying
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European Atlas of the Seas
The European Atlas of the Seas hosts information about Europe's marine environment, covering topics such as nature, tourism, security, energy, passenger transport, sea bottom, sea level rise and fish consumption. The latest update allows schools, researchers and professionals to explore, collate and create their own maps and print, share or embed the maps in their articles and presentations. With the new release, users can benefit from an enriched data catalogue available in four languages (EN, FR, DE & ES); the atlas will soon be available in all official languages of the European Union. The
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Airbnb inside
European cities like Barcelona, Berlin or Amsterdam facing increasing housing shortage. One reason could be that residents subrent rooms and often entire apartments or houses via Airbnb in a commercial way. Airbnb is a peer-to-peer platform where short term housing in private accommodations is offered to tourists enabling them to experience a city neighbourhood like a local with a limited budget. To enrich the debate to which extent Airbnb is misused to commercially accommodate tourists and thereby engraving the housing shortage, Murray Cox founded the independent platform Airbnb inside. It