EuroPolA Summer School
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| Who (or what) is the European Union? If you always wanted to ask, ... | European Union -- by topic The policies and priorities of the European Union --- in many languages. | EU Institutions and bodies The EU policy 'actors' and key stakeholders. | EU's publications ... and they're plenty!!! Don't despair, though: Start at the "EU Bookshop" and work your way through the rest. | EUROSTAT - The EU's statistical office. "[Eurostat's ] mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe." |
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Eurostat links All are accessible via Eurostat's site. Use this list as a shortcut; if you must. |
| Statistics by theme Eurostat's statitics grouped by topic. | Statistics A to Z All the statistics, in alphabetical order. | Geodata Your pathway geo-aware data and analysis | Complete database All the statistics, in tree-like form. | Bulk download facility If you know the table code name you can get *all* of it here. No questions asked. | Web services If you want to automate your data downloads, start here. Make sure you try the 'Query Builder' -it helps if you're new to this. There are size restrictions per query, but you can always break down you data request into smaller (and more meanigful) data sets. | SDMX - Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange If you really want to get your hands 'dirty' ... not for the faint hearted :-) |
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Other data providers / sources To boldly go ... beyond eurostat. |
| European Data Portal Aggregator of data from various sources. Use the cataloques [https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/organization] to see the sources | United Nations data Data about, and from around the globe... | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Another vast collection of data from around the world, about the world. | Wold Bank - Data Catalog Start here and work your way through the various options. | International Monetary Fund Mostly financial. Plenty nonetheless. | European Central Bank Not the most intuitive interface but Banks never are. Look for the "Full content" link on the left to get an A-Z list. | World Health Organization Health and data? Hand-in-hand. | Google public data And you thought Google don't do data! Tip: if you have a google account you probably can use Google Data Studio - https://datastudio.google.com/ (Currently in Beta and freely accessible) | DataPortals.org "Data Portals A Comprehensive List of Open Data Portals from Around the World" | europeana It's data Jim, but not as we know it... | Kaggle datasets Some do it for a stake at getting the money, others do it for fun, others for learning, and others probably have nothing better to do. Whatever your vice there's bound to be something of interest to your, here. | Wikidata "The data anyone can edit" which may affect trustworthiness. You need to know you way around APIs and SPARQL if you want use data from wikidata. The great thing is that you can retrieve the data from all the wikimedia sites, like wikipedia, wikimedia, etc. So, if it's in a wikipedia page, then you can get it in data form. |
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Excel data downloaders Yes, you can get data from various sources without ever leaving Excel. |
| Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis --- FRED Add-in Free to download and use. You can get economic data from various sources. | Quandl Add-in for Excel Quandl aggregate [all sorts of] data from various sources. The Add-in is free to install and use, as are lots of their datasets. However, not all datasets are free. |
| Summer School Quality Assurance Links to the quality assurance questionnaires. |
