1. Open data in Statistics Finland
Nordic webseminar,
Helsinki, February 2013
Markku Huttunen
Jussi Arpalahti

2. Renewed copyrights and terms of use Jan 2013 http://www. stat
User Rights
Statistics Finland grants a universal, free-of-charge, irrevocable, parallel right of use to the aforementioned material, which may be freely: copied and distributed, edited and commercially exploited, combined with other products, used as part of an application or service.
Obligations and responsibilities of the user
When using or releasing onwards the material or the products made of it, the user must: mention the copyright or other right of Statistics Finland.
Obligations and responsibilities of Statistics Finland
Statistics Finland is not responsible for any possible errors in the material or for direct or indirect damages arising from the use of the material.
Statistics Finland does not guarantee continuous availability of the material.
Markku Huttunen

3. Open data and interfaces http://www. stat
Open data - StatFin database
Over 2600 tables (fi, sv, en; partly multilingual)
Unique tables 1730 (fi)
Downloading link: pxweb2.stat.fi/database/StatFin/StatFin_rap.xls
Table link: pxweb2.stat.fi/database/StatFin/asu/asas/010_asas_tau_101.px
Statistic´s home page:
Consepts and definitions:
Keywords: -> keywords
Open data – Eurostat main tables
1135 tables (en)
Downloading link: pxweb2.stat.fi/database/Eurostat/Eurostat_rap.xls
Table link: pxweb2.stat.fi/database/Eurostat/asu/t2020_51.px
Markku Huttunen

4. Apps4Finland & Stats4Finland (http://apps4finland. fi/en & www. stat
Apps4Finland & Stats4Finland ( &
Apps4Finland: competition of ideas and functional web applications, widgets, mashups, mobile apps and other digital utilities that make use of  public data.
5 categories: Idea Category, Application Category, Visualisation Category, Data Category, Data Tutorial
3 special prizes: Maps4Finland (National Land Survey of Finland), Stats4Finland (SF) and NewBiz4Finland (Logica)
120 competing works
Apps4Finland special prize was awarded for the best work based on statistical data: Trump municipalities card game.
Markku Huttunen

5. Communicating with the open data community
Stats4Finland Developer Workshop was organized as part of the Apps4Finland competition (>)
Basics of statistics, OSF, ESS, Copyrights of SF, API´s of SF, PC-Axis file format, PX-Edit, CSV + XML, case Eurostat, IPython, GitHub
Vivid civic activism
Municipal elections 2012: Facebook group Data elections (>)
The Open Knowledge and Data Festival (>)
Datajournalism
E.g. Hacks/Hackers HKI Meetup: Open source tools for journalists (>)
Conference of Science Journalists WCSJ Helsinki 2013 (>)
SF: Workshop on data-journalism and open data
Markku Huttunen

6. Data is open, then what?
All Statistics Finland´s PX-Web database files (StatFin) are free to be downloaded
Copyrights allow open usage even for commercial use
But still there are some problems
Quality of metadata is not good enough
Statistical knowledge of the users is not good enough
The API´s are not good enough
The API´s of the new version of PX-Web?
Common open services like GeoDataWindow (>)?
Other API solutions?
Markku Huttunen