Dashboard for territorial data analysis: potential, SDMX and integration with other sources

Abstract

Dashboards have become an indispensable tool for the effective and timely representation and analysis of socio-economic phenomena. Organizations that deal with statistics increasingly promote the use of this tool, managing to satisfy the needs and interests of an increasingly wider audience of users. This work presents an effective approach to analyse multi-source territorial data on tourism, using dashboards of the most popular business analytics platforms in order to evaluate their potential. One of the most relevant features of dashboards is the ability to visualize and analyse data up to municipal and monthly levels, offering a temporal and territorial granularity particularly suited for in-depth studies. Furthermore, the platforms allow users to cross-reference tourist information with other territorial variables, such as demographic, economic or infrastructural data, enriching the contextual analysis. The systems are updated both using the ISTAT REST APIs through the SDMX protocol, ensuring dynamic and continuously updated access to official data, and datasets already available previously downloaded and structured.