European Statistical Week Going public: data dissemination Celia Santos and Chris Laevaert Unit B6– Dissemination 23 October 2012

Monitoring figures – March 2012 2,5 million visitors 3,5 million page views 700.000 dataset extractions 550.000 tables consultations > 6000.00 publication downloads (.pdf) 1,4 million datasets downloaded via bulkdownload Internal Commission usage less 3%

Free dissemination policy Started 1st October 2004 All statistical Data and electronic publications are FREE OF CHARGE via the Eurostat website Available in three languages – (en,de,fr) > 4.500 datasets online available > 1.200 tables online available > 6.000 publication available (.pdf) Data updated twice a day Among top 5 visited websites of European Commission

Website and visualisation tools (demo) Navigation tree Data Explorer (dataset interface) Tables Graphs and Maps interface Country profiles Business Cycle Clock Bulk download facility Statistics Explained Inflation dashboard Statistical Atlas Mobile devices

Mobile devices

Country profile - Android

Country profile – iPad

Track usage, user behaviour, user feedback Monthly monitoring report Benchmarking User support Institutional support Press office User Satisfaction survey

Making data re-usable Users needs cannot be predetermined Allow users to re-use data with tools they prefer Provide various data formats in visualisation tools (xls, html, txt, xml, spss, pc-axis) Bulk download facility – raw datasets (tsv, sdmx-ml, dft)

Making data re-usable, searchable, findable Take advantage of “the cloud” Google’s Public Data Explorer Integration in Google search – Onebox Other online re-distributors (BBC, Capital.fr, Guardian) Bulk download facility – LinkedData (300.000 files – 600 Gbytes / month)

Google Public Data Explorer Google acquired Gapminder Trendalyzer Creating a new service that make lots of data instantly available for intuitive, visual exploration A more central role in informed public conversations Google contacted Eurostat to expand service to EU data

Google Public Data Explorer Public Data Explorer – released 08-Mar-2010 datasets, more to come http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory Directly in google search since 05-Oct-2010 Datasets are generating debates on different economical blogs using the PDE and Eurostat data Impact on Eurostat website traffic

Onebox search on the 5 October 2010 Eurostat Data available in 34 languages in Google search with high ranking in search results http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/10/eurostat-and-world-bank-data-now.html 4 datasets Minimum Wage Unemployment Government debt in Europe Broadband penetration in Europe

Examples minimum wage belgium tassi di disoccupazione минимальная заработная плата hükümet borcu 最低賃金 最低工资 offentliga sektorns skuld

Reusable interface – OECD eXplorer http://stats.oecd.org/OECDregionalstatistics/ http://www.ncomva.se/flash/explorer/euro/ Eurostat « open data » examples Capital.fr: main economical indicators http://www.capital.fr/statistiques-eco BBC: eurozone crisis http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13366011 Guardian: new europe statistics http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/14/new-europe-statistics-interactive

What's next?

Widgets

Visualisation components

Dashboards

Thank you for your attention Questions? celia.santos-sanchez@ec.europa.eu christiaan.laevaert@ec.europa.eu