[okfn-help] CKAN searches

Tue Dec 15 13:11:46 UTC 2009

We've just done analysis on what people are searching for in CKAN. It
came up during discussions about improving the CKAN UI (BTW all
suggestions welcome) and thought it might be useful to share the top
results to give a flavour of its use.

The results reflect not only topics that users know there is open data
for, but also topics they are hoping there might be data for! Note
that the top few are a reflection on the suggestions in the CKAN
search form (geo, shakespeare and science) and geodata is a favourite
of mine for test purposes.

Thanks to Nick Stenning for his command-line wizardry to munge the
most recent server request logs.

David

170 geo
98 country-
96 science
48 shakespeare
48 +shakespeare
44 music
35 geodata
35 geo+data
34 uk
23 a
22 network
22 belgium
21 health
20 biblios
19 postcode
19 population
18 weather
18 education
16 traffic
16 patent
16 law
16 finance
16 data
16 climate
14 gis
14 food+
14 food
14 film
14 energy
13 wikipedia
13 news
13 movie
13 history
13 crime
12 transport
12 physics
12 football
12 city
12 biology
12 UK
11 vote
11 twitter
11 stock
11 medical
11 language+
11 language
11 gov
10 sex
10 product
10 movies
10 ling
10 geocommons
10 environment
10 census
10 book
10 art+
10 art
10 airport
10 Uk
9 xml
9 ukgov
9 uk+gov
9 statistics
9 market
9 france+
9 france
9 e
9 business
9 WordNet
8 wiki
8 temperature
8 spanish
8 library
8 freebase
8 email
8 economy
8 economics
8 christian
8 chemistry
8 cars
8 books
7 water
7 text
7 test
7 tags%3Ageo
7 tags%3A+geo
7 srtm
7 sales
7 rdf
7 python
7 politics
7 perl
7 people
7 one
7 notes
7 images
7 image
7 groups%3Aukgov
7 french
7 flight
7 eutransparency
7 computer
7 ckan
7 cities
7 c+kan
7 bio*
6 us
6 un
6 trade
6 sport
6 retail
6 names
6 name
6 math
6 map
6 london
6 linux
6 linguistics
6 legislation
6 italy
6 government
6 google
6 gdp
6 eu
6 employment
... and a long tail!