Interact: tools, packages, interfaces

Quote Finder

The tool was developed by OBC Transeuropa in order to make it easier to explore the EU’s debate. The Quote Finder makes it possible to browse MEPs’ activity on Twitter, to check what EU institutions are talking about in their official statements, and to follow trending topics in European media.

latlon2map

An interface developed by OBC Transeuropa, making it fast and easy to associate the latitude/longitude coordinates of a series of places with the administrative units they belong to, all the way from country to municipality level; results can be exported as a spreadsheet or as a map (presentation).

tidywikidatar

An R package developed by OBC Transeuropa in order to make it easier for journalists to use the wealth of information available on Wikidata. The package makes it possible to search information without using SPARQL queries and nested lists and it enables local caching.

Ganttrify!

A straightforward online interface developed by OBC Transeuropa, facilitating the creation of Gantt charts. These charts are often used for project management and grant applications (presentation).

riskviewer

This interface has been developed (in beta phase) by OBC Transeuropa in order to generate effective visualisations of risk and uncertainty, based on the ‘risk characterisation theatre’ model.

InfringEye

InfringEye was developed by Openpolis with the aim of making it easier for journalists to track and filter EU infringement procedures against member states. The tool includes a database of infringement procedures; key datasets and visualizations; a report and country factsheets.

From the archive

Over the last few years EDJNet developed a few other tools aimed at making it easier for journalists to work with data. Most of these tools were developed up to the beta phase but are not now maintained anymore, mostly because of major changes intervened in the sources employed or of the appearance of other technologies and tools. EDJNet’s own focus has shifted more towards editorial production and the creation of original datasets or of more versatile packages.

Stats Monitor

The Stats Monitor was a tool developed by LocalFocus, Journalism++, and Newsworthy in 2017-21. It generated ready-made data visualisations and newsleads based on the latest data by Eurostat and other sources, highlighting trends and outliers in a few economic, social, and political fields. 

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Data Search Engine

The tool was developed by OBC Transeuropa in 2017-19. It aimed at making it easier to find useful data within the wealth of datasets collected by the European Data Portal and the EU Open Data Portal, before their structure was fundamentally revised and made more user-friendly.

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