Data stories

In total there are currently 582,937 data sets on the European Data Portal. To find your way in this tremendous amount, there are 13 different data domains in which the data sets are divided. In order to make this mapping, the metadata - information about the data - contains information about data domains. Approximately 70% of the data sets are mapped to the data domains of the DCAT-Application...

The 31st Modern Olympic Summer games will start in Rio de Janeiro. Until the 21st of August, more than 10,000 athletes from over 200 different countries will compete in 28 different sports. This year there are three new sports introduced: golf, sevens rugby and kite surfing. The Olympic Games show that sport fanatics can be found around the whole world. But what if you are visiting a country and...

In most European countries, the holiday season is about to start. For many people this is also the time of the year they will travel abroad and discover new places. When travelling abroad it might require you to speak another language than your mother tongue. Which country in Europe would be able to speak most foreign languages? The European Union publishes Open Data for each country on how many...

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...

It might not come as a surprise that there are less data sets found for smaller European countries, as they might simply have less data to share. A correlation we had presented in an earlier Featured Data. Nonetheless, smaller countries, are given the opportunity to show a bigger relative growth compared to larger countries with already large amounts of data referenced. This Featured Data examines...

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...

Open Data can be found in various fields or be illustrated in numerous ways. This allows people to get acquainted with sets which have never been explored or for people already familiar with a certain topic, to see if the set fits their needs. An example of "did-you-know-this-is-open-data", are the naval (or maritime) facilities at the coast of Ireland which is visualised in the figure below. The...

Specific regions in countries produce specific goods. Goods which are transported to other regions or countries. How much of these goods are transported via rail? And which country could benefit from transporting more via rail? Germany is the top country in rail transport among the EU28+ countries (European Union member states plus Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland). Poland and France are...

On Friday 10 June 2016 the European Championship kicked off in France with the match of the organising country against Romania. In one month time 24 teams will compete to become the champion and gain the cup. But when it comes to Open Data in the field of football, which European country can already be crowned the champion in that topic? The datasets available contain information about football on...

Since the release of the first official version of the European Data Portal (EDP) in February 2016, the number of catalogues harvested by the EDP and the number of datasets harvested by the national portals, has increased. The datasets are categorised into 13 domains. Some national portals use a different categorisation requiring the mapping to be continuously improved and updated. Currently...