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

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

4. 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)
> datasets online available
> tables online available
> publication available (.pdf)
Data updated twice a day
Among top 5 visited websites of European Commission

5. 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

6. Mobile devices

8. Country profile - Android

9. Country profile – iPad

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

11. 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)

12. 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 ( files – 600 Gbytes / month)

13. 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

14. Google Public Data Explorer
Public Data Explorer – released 08-Mar-2010
datasets, more to come
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

15. Onebox search on the 5 October 2010
Eurostat Data available in 34 languages in Google search with high ranking in search results
4 datasets
Minimum Wage
Unemployment
Government debt in Europe
Broadband penetration in Europe

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

19. Reusable interface – OECD eXplorer
Eurostat « open data » examples
Capital.fr: main economical indicators
BBC: eurozone crisis
Guardian: new europe statistics

20. What's next?

21. Widgets

22. Visualisation components

23. Dashboards

24. Thank you for your attention Questions?