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Last updated: 2026-04-26

Data Stories

A curated collection of data stories, dashboards, and visualisations produced by the ODON team and contributors from our community. Browse the published work below — from live dashboards to in-depth data investigations.

Every entry documents its data sources using our Open Data Maturity Model (ODMM), so you can see exactly how open the underlying data is. Interested in a similar project for your organisation? See our Services.

Blaming the Neighbours: What Europe Called Syphilis

When syphilis swept Europe after the 1495 Naples outbreak, no nation would own it — each named the disease after a neighbour or enemy. This interactive map traces...

story medicine history
· David Curran
A May Record 250 Years in the Making

On 26 May 2026, Central England recorded its highest daily mean temperature for any May day in 254 years of measurement. This interactive chart places that 23.2°C reading...

story climate environment
· David Curran
The Hidden Labor of Relocation

What skilled migrants do before the job offer exists — mapped through official data from ILO, Eurostat, IND & the EU AI Act.

story migration labour AI
· Samreen Khan
Relocation Is an Integration Problem

Original poll data and four NL-specific studies reveal that daily life integration and social belonging — not paperwork or housing — are the hardest parts of relocating. Using...

story migration social housing
· Samreen Khan
Working-from-Home Life & Burnout

A data story exploring the relationship between remote work conditions and burnout, based on a dataset of 1,600 survey responses — with findings that challenge common assumptions.

story health labour
· Nooshin Orouji
Bike Rental Dashboard & Live Data

A live dashboard of bike rental station locations and real-time availability across the Amsterdam metropolitan area, built on top of the Donkey Republic GBFS open mobility feed.

dashboard mobility sustainability
· Nooshin Orouji
Bike Share & Sustainable Mobility

An information-design poster tracing the global rise of bike share programs and their potential to cut transport-sector carbon dioxide emissions.

story mobility sustainability environment
· Kenji Wada