Leverage Open Government Data for an informed, data-driven and transparent process in your hackathon project.

Quickstart

• Identify topics relevant to the specific challenge or problem area you're working on.
• Explore the Opendata.swiss platform to find and explore the available open datasets.
• Compare authoritative indicators to the responses of LLMs to find gaps in AI knowledge.
• Download data to explore with local tools, add to your machine learning or RAG pipeline.
• Publish new visualizations or improvements to the data, making sure to attribute your sources.

Access to datasets can be found on the official Opendata.swiss website. Use the "search" function to filter datasets by topic or keyword, or browse the list of organizations. Example datasets that you might find:

• Swiss population statistics by age and gender.
• Employment rates by industry or region.
• Energy consumption and production metrics from over the years.
• School enrollment rates or educational outcomes by district.
• Demographic data: population size, age distribution, nationality.
• Economic indicators: GDP, employment data, financial statistics.
• Environmental data: climate change, natural resources, biodiversity.
• Urban development: transportation data, housing, land use plans.
• Health and education statistics: hospital admission rates, etc.

Some datasets relate to the application of AI in government, e.g.:

Note: Please check any applicable terms of use or data usage guidelines before embedding Open Data in your project.

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