# Open Data Is Not a Product. Here's What It Takes to Make It One.

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Podcast: [Data Science Tech Brief By HackerNoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-science-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6367564)
Published: 2026-06-12T16:00:42+00:00
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## Resource

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/open-data-is-not-a-product-heres-what-it-takes-to-make-it-one . Two GeoJSON files from a government portal, turned into a public service for 106 communes. The hard part wasn't the code — it was the integrity calls. Check more stories related to data-science at: https://hackernoon.com/c/data-science . You can also check exclusive content about #data-engineering , #opendata , #web-development , #civic-tech , #data-transparency , #geoportail.lu , #data-integrity , #data-pipeline , and more. This story was written by: @leadgen_luxembourg . Learn more about this writer by checking @leadgen_luxembourg's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Governments publish open data and call it done — but "published" isn't "usable." I turned two GeoJSON files into a trilingual water-quality site covering all 106 Luxembourg communes. The pipeline (fetch → transform → auto-refresh) was the easy part. The hard part was the integrity calls: dropping sentinel values, refusing to fake a number for the capital, and shipping "I don't know" as a real feature.

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