Open Data API for Switzerland

Posted on 2024-12-08 in opendata

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Motivation

Switzerland's public institutions are publishing more and more Open Data. As I'm writing this, 12'113 datasets got published on opendata.swiss from different organisations on national, cantonal or communal level. Additionally, I expect that in the coming years, the growth of open data will significantly increase, because of the …


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One year of E-Scooter data

Posted on 2024-07-05 in escooter

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For more than one year, I collected the location of the E-Scooters in Switzerland. This is possible due to the provided API from the Swiss Federal Office …


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Mass export data from STATATLAS

Posted on 2024-05-26 in opendata

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I find it difficult to compare different municipalities with eachother in Switzerland. The Federal Statistical Office (BFS) does publish many data, but it is hard to collect various data from

  • a) each municipality in Swizterland (location)
  • b) over multiple years (time)
  • c) over multiple indicators (scope)

The STATATLAS (statistical atlas …


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Download Statistics for OGD (Canton of Zurich)

Posted on 2024-02-10 in opendata

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After my last post creating a network graph for the Open Data listed on opendata.swiss with Gephi, I searched for a solution to automatically create a nice looking graph. Luckily, I found a solution with:

NetworkX is used …


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OpenData.swiss Tags Network

Posted on 2023-10-01 in opendata

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The network itself is created with Gephi. I get the data from my daily snapshots of CKAN packages from opendata.swiss. An export (uncompressed 73 GB in size) for the time period 2022-08-26 until 2024-05-31 can be found here …


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