Publisher scorecard
How usable each body's published data actually is. Scores reward things that let a person answer a question — machine-readable format, an open licence, useful granularity, an API — rather than the mere existence of a page with the word "data" on it.
Read the median column, not the mean. A body that publishes one excellent flagship dataset alongside forty PDFs will have a respectable mean and a poor median, and the median is what a member of the public actually runs into.
| Publisher | Jurisdiction | Datasets | Median | Distribution | Open | Machine readable | Unchecked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 100 | 1 open | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Australian Electoral Commission | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 90 | 1 open | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Clean Energy Regulator | Commonwealth of Australia | 2 | 90 | 2 open | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Productivity Commission | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 90 | 1 open | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Department of Finance | Commonwealth of Australia | 2 | 69 | 1 open 1 published | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Office of the Australian Information Commissioner | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 69 | 1 published | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Brisbane City Council | Brisbane City Council | 4 | 49 | 1 open 2 published 1 unpublished | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Department of Health, Disability and Ageing | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 49 | 1 published | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Housing Australia | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 49 | 1 published | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| National Housing Supply and Affordability Council | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 49 | 1 published | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Department of the Treasury | Commonwealth of Australia | 1 | 49 | 1 published | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| City of Sydney | City of Sydney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What this scorecard cannot tell you
- Coverage is not completeness. A publisher scores only on the datasets we have assessed. A body with two well-published datasets and a hundred unexamined holdings will score well and deserve nothing.
- A high score is not a clean bill of health. A body can publish beautifully machine-readable data about trivia while withholding everything that matters. Read the gap register alongside this table.
- Small bodies are not badly run because they score low. A council of four thousand people has no data team. The comparison that means something is between bodies of similar size and budget.