Open Data Is Not a Product. Here's What It Takes to Make It One.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/open-data-is-not-a-product-heres-what-it-takes-to-make-it-one. Two GeoJSON files from a government portal, turned into a public service for 106 communes. The hard part wasn't the code — it was the integrity calls. Check more stories related to data-science at: https://hackernoon.com/c/data-science. You can also check exclusive content about #data-engineering, #opendata, #web-development, #civic-tech, #data-transparency, #geoportail.lu, #data-integrity, #data-pipeline, and more. This story was written by: @leadgen_luxembourg. Learn more about this writer by checking @leadgen_luxembourg's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Governments publish open data and call it done — but "published" isn't "usable." I turned two GeoJSON files into a trilingual water-quality site covering all 106 Luxembourg communes. The pipeline (fetch → transform → auto-refresh) was the easy part. The hard part was the integrity calls: dropping sentinel values, refusing to fake a number for the capital, and shipping "I don't know" as a real feature.