About this site
Public Data Unpacked makes Irish public-sector data accessible to non-technical readers. The site aggregates data from sources like data.gov.ie, the Department of Housing, the Department of Justice, the Department of Social Protection, and the International Protection Appeals Tribunal.
Government bodies typically publish data as periodic PDF or CSV reports. This site collates those over longer time periods and presents them as interactive dashboards, allowing readers to interrogate the figures and draw their own insights.
Each dashboard tries to:
- Use the source's own terminology rather than inventing labels
- Present caveats up front — what the data does and doesn't count
- Show working: link to the original source, document methodology, and explain any normalisation
- Avoid framing that pushes a political conclusion; the goal is informed readers, not converted ones
About me
Public Data Unpacked is an independent project, built and maintained in my own time outside of work. I'm interested in how Irish public-sector data is published and want to make it easier for people to interrogate it without needing to wade through PDFs or aggregate datasets manually.
If you spot an error or have a suggestion, please get in touch.