What is HDX?
The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is OCHA’s open platform for sharing humanitarian data. HDX’s objective is to make humanitarian data easy to find and easy to use for analysis.
What is humanitarian data?
1. Baseline / development data
2. Reference data (like CODs)
3. Situational data (needs or damage assessments, logistics)
4. Response data (3W, etc.)
Our short history
HDX was launched at the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin.
Over 176,000 users visiting HDX since July 2014
About registered users
Approximately users per week visiting the site
Almost one every four () visitors downloads a dataset
organizations
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Example Dataset
Geopreview
What is metadata? Data about your data.
Why is metadata important?
- Searchability: Good tags and descriptions make your data more discoverable
- Trust: Our users have told us over and over how important it is to know how much they can trust the data.
- Fitness for use: The methods used to collect or process data may influence the suitability of the information for different purposes. Methodology!
- Usability: Without good documentation of license, methods and field names, users may be unable to make use of the data you’ve shared.
Organization Pages
Crises Pages
Open API
