Global Data Management Problem

Post date: Sep 20, 2017 4:37:57 PM

The issue of large scale data organization is a prevalent problem worldwide. Especially with the increasing amounts of data and information flow in recent years, managing such large amounts of data and allowing the public to access and use this data effectively is difficult. The goal of making data open and accessible is so that people can use this data for other purposes. This can only be done if the data is displayed it in a way that will be easy for people to view and make sense of.

Organizations around the world are addressing this issue by developing initiatives to give better open data access as well as improve on visualizations. Similarly, we are helping the VPC address this data management problem by assisting them in making the data they’ve collected over the past 30 years more accessible to the public and make it more easily useable to organizations (such as local Venetian startups), to future IQP projects, and to anyone else who could benefit from using the data. For example, the EU estimates that 25,000 jobs could be created by making data more accessible (Benefits of Open Data, 2017). Below are some of the other benefits of open data: (image also from the European Data Portal)

These are just a few of the many potential benefits of improving data organization around the world.

"Benefits of Open Data." . Accessed Sept 17, 2017. https://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/using-data/benefits-of-open-data.