Work With Data. Making public data accessible to all

Last updated on 14 June 2024

How can public data be made accessible to all citizens? How to use them? We've been talking a lot about it for some time now. Data, data …new business lines have even emerged Data Analyst, Data Scientist … Open data has further accelerated the movement. However, the use and exploitation of this huge amount of public data remains an exercise reserved for insiders. Some tools like Datawrapper or Flourish They allow you to format a dataset, but it is still very difficult to find and juggle the multiple sources of public data.

Work With Data is a game-changing platform created by two young French people. Their crazy goal: to allow everyone to get data on everything!  They are well on their way to achieving this. Careful nugget.

An inexhaustible source of public data accessible to all

The Work With Data platform is the type of site where you can quickly forget the time by jumping from one resource to another because it is so rich. An exciting dive into the world of data just waiting to be used for your courses, work or presentations.
By the time I write these lines you can already explore data on 3.98 million topics and entities across 3.44 billion data sources. All compiled in rich formats combining different reliable sources in all conceivable formats: graphs, tables, maps and datasets. A real Ali Baba cave of data.

Work With Data, to succeed in this work, collects data from reliable sources and structures it into a single model. “Representing the world as it is so that people can explore it without limits” This is what we want to do Camille Lehujeur and Laurent Molter the two animators of this crazy project.

Reliable public data structured and linked intelligently

Work With Data focuses solely on public data with the aim of making it accessible to all. The site takes particular care when collecting the choice and integrity of the data collected. Little or no surprises, the list of sources includes major international museums, governments and major international institutions such as the World Health Organisation or major universities and libraries. It's just beautiful people.

All these sources are complex in their raw state. Work With Data's job will be to turn them into resources that anyone can use thanks to a clear interface that can be easily exploited. A successful bet.

An encyclopedia of public data accessible to all

The homepage of Work With Data gives a small idea of the richness of this real data encyclopedia. Multimedia and interactive factsheets offer a taste of the type of data available on many topics. Maps, graphs, tables … A search engine and a keyword system make it easier to find the resources you are interested in. A filter system then makes it possible to enlarge or reduce the number of data presented. Each topic is accompanied by links to data sources as well as invitations to consult data related to the topic being explored.

The mass of formatted data embraces an impressive number of subjects. You will be able to get all the data on a country of course, but also on a large company or on …un artist. The platform also offers entries by category. You will find classified and ready to use all subjects concerning: art, economics, education, conflicts, geography, health, culture, media, politics and literature.

The site allows you to save pages, share them easily by email or on social networks. Above all, you can download all the data as a graph or only the data in .csv format.

Work With Data is a great tool that puts data at everyone's fingertips. A rich resource for the world of education and research.

The use of Work With Data is free for the first 30 days. You must then take a subscription of just over €10 per month to have access to all the data and options on offer. The platform is free for journalists and the authors have specific agreements for the world of education.