If you plan to participate in the Eurostat Hackday, please make sure you sign up at: http://eurostat.eventbrite.com/
#okfn on irc.oftc.net
#eurostat as the tag/hashtag for Twitter, blogposts, media
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IDEAS
Add any ideas for things you'd like to do/build below...
“Eurostat for data hackers” Guide (proposed by RichardC)
- A short tutorial document
- Gives an introduction to the data available at Eurostat
- Target audience: application/mashup developers
European Energy Data in Eurostat:
- Give compelling top level overview of energy production/consumption in different EU member states
- In detail: http://okfnpad.org/eu-energy-data
General ideas:
- Browsing and navigation tools
- Aggregation of stats data and cleaning tools (like: http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/)
- Combining Eurostat data with national statistics, maps, Wikipedia/Freebase and other data sources (Norwegian company register is queryable through a RESTFULL service at https://ws.brreg.no/lod/page/992918551 where last 8-digit number is a companies organisational/VAT number. Can be hooked up to some other national statistics.
- Brainstorming and planning future joint efforts around Eurostat data
- Do some journalistic work on data and help visualize it
- Let users create graphs with different data, save the result graph, and let other users "Like" this graph. Imagine a Digg with different graphs comparing different data sources. We could discover very interesting related info. <- Great Point!
- Using Semantic MediaWiki for creating, browsing, and discussing of eurostat query results.
Non-Objectives
- Talk about DataCube, SCOVO, SDMX/RDF etc. too much (use them as means, not ends)
Ideas from Eurostat (John Allen and others)
- Build a widget which can display current values of a few statistical indicators. Example: Catalan Indicators of the day (http://www.idescat.cat/api/indicadors/giny/?lang=en ) from the Statistical Institute of Catalunya.
- Re-use of structured textual content from the MediaWiki-based section of the Eurostat website, Statistics Explained (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statisticsl_explained )
Population balance (Bill Roberts)
- taking population, birth, death, migration data and looking at population changes per country
- starting with making datacube RDF versions of selected data
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LOCATIONS
You can also add your name to a location below to let others know you are coming, or add a new location (in alphabetical order) if you are interested in organising an event in your area!
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Amsterdam (other location in the Netherlands also good)
- Milo van der Linden (NL) -- @miblon
- interested but only meeting in irc.oftc.net #okfn - Dan Brickley @danbri
Berlin (impakt Berlin, Erkelenzdamm 59)
- Friedrich Lindenberg, OKF (DE) -- @pudo
- Daniel Dietrich, OKF (DE) @ddie
- Mikael Högqvist, ZIB (DE) -- @mkhq
- Max Friedrich Hartmann (DE) -- @diskurs
- Michael Kreil (DE) @MichaelKreil
- Anja Jentzsch (DE) @anjeve
Edinburgh
- Keith Alexander, Talis (based near Edinburgh, but not unwilling to travel)
- William Waites, OKF (UK)
- Richard Cyganiak, DERI -- @cygri
- Aftab Iqbal, DERI (Ireland)
- Andreas Harth (KIT, DE) @aharth (maybe Berlin, to be decided)
- Ewan Klein, UoE (UK)
- Bill Roberts, Swirrl (@billroberts)
- Benedikt Kämpgen @bkaempgen (KIT, DE)
- Xi Bai, UoE (UK)
- Peter Winstanley (Scottish Government)
London
- Rufus Pollock, OKF (UK) -- @rufuspollock
- Jonathan Gray, OKF (UK)-- @jwyg
- Sebastian Komianos, Royal Holloway -- @sebkom
- Lisa Evans, Guardian (UK)
Liverpool
- Aidan McGuire (Scraperwiki) @amcguire62
- Julian Todd (Scraperwiki) @goatchurch
- Tom Mortimer Jones (Scraperwiki) @morty_uk
- Tim Miles (Jumpwire)
- Chris Blower (Jumpwire)
Links
Links to coverage, blog posts, outputs, etc
