Re: Open Government Data - datasets

From: Mohammad Nadim <nadim.attari_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:24:51 +0400

Hi SM,

The request for these datasets was made my a friend of mine, which I
forwarded to you. My friend is not aware what Open Data really means. I
know OGD are raw data, hence we won't be having percentages or breakdowns.
It's up to us to process the datasets and produce meaningful information.

I don't think we can ask for these data, unless we verify whether they are
available and they can be obtained from the government or any government
agency.

*Questions*:

   - What will be the procedure to ask, in the future, for datasets that we
   have not been asked yet?
   - Whom to ask the datasets?


Regards,
Nadim Attari




On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 at 23:59 S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:

> Hi Nadim,
>
> This is the list of data which you are interested in:
>
> >Operators / Service providers' data
> >No. of licensed operators at the Tourism Authority (TA)
> >- per sector of activity,
> >- per region
> >- per rating (hotels etc)
> >- per category (restaurants)
> >- per activity (excursions)
> >
> >No; of rooms or roomnights or beds available per each category of
> >tourist accommodation
> >
> >No; of pending licences at any given time (past week, month or quarter).
> >
> >Average duration of processing / delivering operators' licences
> >- Per sector or activity
> >
> >Arrivals / tourists' data
> >No. of arrivals per country / nationality
> >No. of arrivals per last boarding / transit airport
> >No. of arrivals per airline company
> >Breakdown of traveller being single, in couple, with kids.
> >Monoparental with kids - State average no. of Adults kids and babies
> >or breakdown per group size.
> >Breakdown of arrivals per age-group; including minors / children
> >Percentage of tourists per occupation type
> >Percentage of repeaters (returning travellers) separated between
> >those coming for 2nd time and those coming for more than their 2nd time.
> >Average spending per country and by service types:
> >- Accommodation,
> >- Car rental
> >- Excursions / Activities
> >- Others
> >Percentage of spending on pre-booked items vs. on the spot spendings
> >Percentage of people having booked their accommodation:
> >- Physically at a Brick and mortar agency
> >- Online with a Brick and mortar agency
> >- Online with an OTA
> >- Online directly with hotel / villa / guest house
> >Percentage of people staying (or roomnights) in different types of
> >accommodation
> >Percentage of people staying (or roomnights) in hotels of international
> brands
> >Number or percentage of people renting cars
> >- From International agencies / brands Vs From local agencies
> >Tourists buying / using local mobile phone cards
> >Average duration of stays or amount per groups of duration periods
> >Amount of persons coming for medical purposes
> >No. of hotels and amount of rooms / roomnights / beds they represent
> >having a regular monitoring of their environment impact, at least in
> >terms of CO2 / Greenhouse gas emissions
>
> Dan has been reminding us that we have to explain what we intend to
> do with the data as it is difficult to get the data if we cannot
> provide a reason for it. What is needed is a business case for each
> request. In my opinion, we should take into consideration that there
> will be resistance to releasing the datasets. I suggest looking into
> whether the data is already being collected and where it is being
> collected as it can help to assess the level of difficulty in getting
> the datasets. I also suggest looking into whether the dataset
> requested is Open Government Data. For example, is the Tourism
> Authority a government agency?
>
> Open Data is generally raw data. It is difficult to understand
> whether there is any value in it. However, what we can ask is raw
> data instead of data which we can process easily and get the required
> information. We also have to find the appropriate sources for the
> data as sometimes the data is not from a single source.
>
> Could you please look at the above data requests from those
> angles? It would take me a week to verify the above requests against
> information which may already be available.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 11 2015 - 17:25:06 PST