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Of the 5 or 6 I clicked on, I was only able to find one with actual data. Most seem to just be a record of the data that exists, but not a source of the data.
by giarc 9y ago
Of the 5 or 6 I clicked on, I was only able to find one with actual data. Most seem to just be a record of the data that exists, but not a source of the data.
For example, fire stations in Canada has 35 'thumbs up' but no actual data available (http://open.canada.ca/en/search/inventory/reference/tcod-2016-0721 http://open.canada.ca/en/search/inventory/reference/tcod-201...)
- 52-6F-62 9y agoUsing the `Open Government Portal`/`Open Data Portal` rather than the `Open Data Inventory` will result in a more intuitive view of available data sets and their formats. Keep in mind, the language used is to make the information as accessible as possible to the largest possible range of interested parties. So if you're to ask why such an inventory exists, the answer would be that any number of differing purposes exist for any number of potential inquiries. IE—not everybody who wants information from this kind of database is an engineer or scientist.
- icegreentea2 9y agoI think the ratio is heavily influenced by the submitting department. The thumbs ups are 'upvotes' back to the submitting body that they should prioritize this dataset. If you're really interested, you can pull down the csv data set and sort by date released.