OBC Transeuropa
Internet Speed in Europe
Data on the average internet speed in European countries, regions, and cities.
Street Names in European Cities
Data on the names of 145,933 streets across 30 major European cities, located in 17 different countries. to whom were the street named after? What is the gender representation? What did these people do in their lifetime?
Trains accessibility in Europe
List of all the active passenger train stations in 16 European countries (based on the quality of available data) and calculations of how far citizens live from them, down to a regional level. It also comes with train prices and travel times, respectively relating them to the median wage and to travel times by car.
Glocal Climate Change in Europe
The dataset contains the mean temperature variation for European regions and local administrative units from 1961 to 2018.
The most popular figures in the street names of European capitals
We have compiled a ranking of the 100 men and women that appear most frequently in the toponyms of 15 European capitals. There’s a lot of saints and white men from the 19th and 20th century, but there’s also quite a few actresses and female Nobel laureates.
The gender gap in Europe’s street names is here to stay
In 30 of Europe's biggest cities, streets named after women make up only 9 per cent of the streets dedicated to individuals. The imbalance has started to narrow in some places, but progress is too slow: at this rate, it would take centuries to really close the gap.
How we used OpenStreetMap and Wikidata to map street names across Europe – Part 2
A walkthrough presenting the data sources used for the "Mapping Diversity" project and of how we extracted and combined journalistically relevant information – and of the many challenges encountered during the process.
EU: cohesion and depopulation
In the whole of South-Eastern Europe, the data on depopulation are dramatic and require urgent reflections. In the rest of Europe the trend is less negative, but remains alarming.
Serbia, algorithmic discrimination rehearsals
A new law on social services in Serbia provides for the collection of a large amount of personal data of beneficiaries, to be analysed with an algorithm that evaluates their socio-economic condition. The declared goal is to improve the distribution of resources, but over 22,000 people have already lost the subsidy, without knowing why.
