Dublinked is the open data portal for the city of Dublin. At the website, users can download information on, among others, transport, energy and the environment, public health and recreation. However, Dublinked only provides the datasets and therefore the Dublin City Council also founded the DublinDashboard. The Dashboard uses the data from Dublinked, but also from other open data sources (Eurostat, Central Statistics Office), to make visualisations that are easily understandable for its citizens.
Openaid.se was started by the Swedish government to provide transparency to its citizens about the social aid it provides to other countries and to refugees. According to the website their goal is to fight poverty as effectively as possible and the only way to do this properly is by being transparent and open. The website combines multiple data sources and enables its users to see precisely which money went where.
The goal of DBpedia is to make the information on Wikipedia machine readable. At this moment, a lot of open data, such as on Wikipedia, is not directly useable for computers. DBpedia enables users to query specific questions in the Wikipedia database. For instance, you can search DBpedia for all places with a Wikipedia page that are close to sea with a lot of sun.
Mapcast helps its user to navigate and discover cities and provides an audio guide that is linked to the users actual location. For instance, if the user is standing in front of the colosseum, you can listen to information from an expert about the monument. Additionally, Mapcast lets users upload their own audio fragments that are also linked to their location, further extending the number of audio fragments in Mapcast.
FiveThirtyEight (re-) uses data to support their journalistic articles in the fields of politics, sports, science & health, economics and culture. Using open data they provide new insights to their readers. Often, they also share their data and their methodology.
My SnowMaps takes in input the data coming from the meteorologcal stations, the snow measures from the official monitoring network and the weather forecast and enters these measures into their own mathematical model to provide snowmaps and snowheight predictions.
Zillow is an America-based company that owns over twenty mobile real estate apps. The company provide its users with open data on buying, selling, renting and financing houses. In its database are over 110 million houses, both on the market available as well as houses not currently on sale.
TheyWorkForYou is a parliamentary monitoring website that aims to make it easier for UK citizens to understand what is going on in the Parliament. The websites uses data from official parliamentary sources and presents the data in a more accessible version.
P-route is a Dutch application that shows users where they can park their bike in the city of Utrecht. Through the application, users can find up-to-date information on space availability in bike parking facilities. In addition, the application shows information on distances to bike parking facilities and routes to get there.
LocalFocus is an online platform that provides data and data visualization tools to journalists. LocalFocus collects and analyses datasets on a wide variety of topics, providing both regional and national newspapers the ability to transform raw data into visual stories. The platform enables journalist to tell data-driven stories, without the need for technical skills.