[okfn-be] Dataset on vehicle registrations in Belgium

Mon Mar 23 16:24:13 UTC 2015

Thank you all for this feedback! Really appreciate it! Forwarding it now 
in an aggregated mail to FOD Mobilit :)

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 2015-03-23 15:48, Stijn Van Hoey wrote:
> Dear Pieter/all,
>
> Just as a quick test on the registration data, 
> https://github.com/stijnvanhoey/open_data_showcases/tree/master/vehicle_registration_example 
> (or viewed with nbviewer: 
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/stijnvanhoey/open_data_showcases/blob/master/vehicle_registration_example/car_data.ipynb) 
> used as example of the usage of Python Pandas and Seaborn. Maybe this 
> is not really example of usage illustrating the usefulness of the data 
> itself, however interesting as teaching material for basic 
> data-analysis (Check the large amount of second hand vans or the 
> incredible amount of 8 registered new electric cars,...).
>
> As remark/feedback to improve:
> - metadata with explanations about categories, header info... would 
> really be helpful. For example, the Euro Norm COdes are given in 
> arabic and roman numbers, dependent on the type of vehicle.
> - no-value columns are currently given as empty strings ('   '), I 
> would be more clear about missing/null values
> - CO2 Category is currently 99 or nan; is this correct?
>
> grs,
> Stijn Van Hoey
>
>
> On 03/23/2015 10:48 AM, Ton Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pieter, all
>>
>> In NL the vehicle registrations including the license plates and 
>> technical vehicle information  is being published. This is being 
>> reused for various purposes by both car industry as well as novel 
>> uses like seeing which cars registered on your birthday are still on 
>> the road, distribution of car colors over time etc.
>>
>> Ton
>>
>> Op 23 mrt. 2015 10:43 schreef "Pieter Colpaert" 
>> <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org <mailto:pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>>:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     Is someone interested in a dataset on vehicle registrations? It's
>>     now available as open data over here:
>>
>>
>>
>>     I've overheard the data publisher is not really enthusiastic
>>     about this: they claim there isn't a lot of interest for this
>>     kind of data anyway and that no one is going to reuse it. Can we
>>     provide them with some kind of feedback which would maximise
>>     reuse, or can we show them a good use of the data?
>>
>>     Kind regards,
>>
>>     Pieter
>>
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