Analytics-Driven Digital Platform for Regional Growth and Development: A Case Study from Norway

TL;DR

This paper introduces a digital platform called growth barometer that visualizes regional development trends in Norway using open data, enhancing decision-making, transparency, and research insights.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel digital platform that offers advanced visualization of regional growth data, improving upon existing Norwegian platforms by making statistics more accessible and comprehensive.

Findings

The platform effectively visualizes regional growth trends.

It improves decision-making and transparency.

It provides a user-friendly interface for diverse data sources.

Abstract

In this paper, we present the growth barometer (Vekstbarometer in Norwegian), which is a digital platform that provides the development trends in the regional context in a visual and user-friendly way. The platform is developed to use open data from different sources that is presented mainly in five main groups: goals, premises or prerequisites for growth, industries, growth, and expectations. Furthermore, it also helps to improve decision-making and transparency, as well as provide new knowledge for research and society. The platform uses sensitive and non-sensitive open data. In contrast to other similar digital platforms from Norway, where the data is presented as raw data or with basic level of presentations, our platform is advantageous since it provides a range of options for visualization that makes the statistics more comprehensive.