Who’s at the popular table? Our analysis found which open data the public likes. : Sunlight Foundation

"In 2017, local and state governments in the United States publish open data on everything from animal licenses to zoning. What we don’t know is how residents use this huge variety of public information. As more state and local governments connect their residents to open data, what kind of open data releases should be a priority?

To start to answer these questions, we analyzed the text descriptions of open datasets from 141 cities and state governments across the country — a total of 21,000 individual open datasets — and scored them based on views and downloads to figure out which types of data are most popular."