Discover Data Browser interface

How to come here from Eurostat website?

From Eurostat website following the “Data > Database” menu

Global layout

Online help

Data Browser provides contextual help, available for all functionalities, by clicking the "Help" button

Choose your language

3 possible languages:

• English

• German

• French

Information

Information - Metadata

Click the "Explanatory text" icon to view the dataset’s metadata; this information is displayed in a new page

Information - About the dataset

Click "About this dataset" to view metadata information about the dataset

Actions - Selection

Actions - Selection - Customize layout for visualisations

• Online help: How to customise the data visualisation?

• Change layout via selection tab

Actions - Selection - Data selection

It is possible to filter the data you want to display without creating a new dataset. This feature is described in the Online help:

• How to customise the data visualisation?

• How to customise data selection?

Actions - Selection - Single selection

Actions - Selection - How to filter Time dimension ?

Actions - Selection - How to filter geographical dimension ?

Actions - Selection - Selection by level on NUTS and NACE - Selection tab

Actions - Format

Visualisations

• 4 direct access visualisations:

  1. Table

  2. Line chart

  3. Bar chart

  4. Map

Visualisations - Table

Visualisations - Table - layout

Change layout via table visualisation

Visualisations - Line chart

Visualisations - Bar chart

Visualisations - Map

Visualisations - Map - NUTS LEVEL

Accessibility

• Compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) level AA

• Support keyboard navigation

Data Browser is a visualisation tool with graph, map and table. The data visualisation accessibility remains limited.

Data Browser manipulations

Default view

• When opening the dataset, the default view defined by Eurostat is displayed.

• This default view uses last 10 positions for TIME dimension and 5 positions for DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATOR dimension.

• Reduced dimensions display an icon (+) which allows to customize the dimension positions and then to create a new dataset.

Custom dataset

• Online help: How to get more data?

• Open custom dataset edition

Custom dataset - selection by level on NUTS and NACE

What are visualisation settings ?

On save and on load, visualisation settings include:

• Current visualisation (table, bar chart, line chart or map)

• Selection configuration (layout + positions selected)

• Format options

Bookmarks

• Online help: How to save for later use? > Manage bookmarks

• Open the bookmark creation window:

My data

• Online help: How to manage the "My data" basket?

• Open My data

My Data - Content

• Datasets

• Bookmarks

My data - add to My data

• Datasets
  
• Custom datasets
  
  
  
• Bookmarks
  

Data Browser - advanced topics

What about series attributes?

• Online help: Series Attribute options

• Series attributes can be displayed or hidden via the format tab option:

• Series attributes are managed in all visualisations.

  • Table: displayed in last column with grey background color
    

  • Line chart: displayed in the tooltip when mouse hover a line, and as the right-end of the lines
    
    
    

  • Bar chart: displayed in the tooltip when mouse hover in bar and as a black stroke on the bar
    

  • Map: displayed in the tooltip when mouse hover in country / region
    

Data on several frequencies - Selection

Data on several frequencies - Visualisation

Build your own view

• Deliberately limited to line/bar/map charts to leave the floor to Eurostat Visualisation Tools

• Data export + API wider format SDMX, JSON-STAT should help you to reuse Eurostat data in the solution of your choice.

• Please contact ESTAT-USER-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu for further information.

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