
#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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Is There a Space for Data Collection?
The IEA is the International Energy Agency, and what happens there is that they they've been publishing data for several years now. There are extremely severe restrictions on what you're allowed to publish publicly or to distribute. The problem is that this is all public money, and that it's extremely important data. And as long as it's not public, especially in the space of energy, the main data set we have to rely on is the BP data set. We started a campaign a few months ago to advocate for the IEA to open up its data.
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