The most popular datasets
Publication Date/Time
2017-04-12T10:45:00+00:00
Facts and practical examples
The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of Public Sector
Information available on portals, both national, regional and local,
throughout Europe. Currently there are 74 catalogues which are
harvested, with a total amount of over 660,000 datasets available on
the European Data Portal. These datasets are divided over 13 data
categories. But what are the most popular datasets? An overview of the
most popular datasets (in terms of pageviews, covering March 2017) is
provided below.
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In the top-ten most popular datasets, not a single country stands out
when looking at where the data originally is harvested from. Several
countries are present in the top-ten, ranging from Moldova to the
United Kingdom. Also when looking at the data categories, a strong
diversity can be noticed. The dataset with the most pageviews comes
from the European Union Open Data Portal
[https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset]. This dataset provides
information from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), dedicated to European
public procurement. It provides data on public procurement contracts,
of notices published in EU Member States, the European Economic Area
(EEA) and beyond. An example of what can be done with such Open Data
is the application TenderGalaxy
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developed by Kenedict Innovation Analytics
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/netherlands_-_kenedict_0.pdf]. This
application allows users to interactively browse the connections
between Dutch government entities, their published tenders, and the
businesses interested in these tenders. The application builds on open
data published on the Dutch marketplace for public tenders, TenderNed.

Do you want to explore what more Open Data can be found on the
European Data Portal? Discover all available sets on our portal
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