Basel linked data

TL;DR; Get population data of the neighbourhoods of Basel

The following SPARQL query allows you to receive the population data from the linked data platform of the city of Basel at a really fine resolution in terms of age.

      

Basel Stadt publishes many of their dataset (“open by default”), for example, those presented on the “Basler Atlas“. As we’ve seen in another post we can use webscrapping to download them for further analysis. However, one downside if that the data are already aggregated to some extent or grouped (e.g. 0-24, 25-64, 65 – for age, or into gender). This limits a potential analysis to these criteria and means we cannot do a demographic display.

However, I realized that Basel-Stadt is offering also a linked data site (based on the same techstack as LINDAS that I showcased with regards to current hydrodata). Within, you can get some observation sets:

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