15 products Sparkpulse tracks are shipping around open data in Analytics. The highest-velocity open data products right now are r-owidapi, etn and tidyBdE (ranked by Sparkpulse's velocity score). The theme runs across 4 sectors, so the momentum you see here is drawn from products competing in different corners of the market. Their velocity scores span 0.0 to 2.5 out of 10, a spread that shows how unevenly shipping cadence is distributed across the field. Below: every tracked product carrying this theme, updated from release data. Everything on this page is regenerated from verified release data, so the ranking reflects the latest changelogs rather than a static list.
#01r-owidapiThe R client for Our World in Data found its search had been reading a tenth of the catalog.2.5alternatives →#02etnetn stopped being an RStudio-server package and became something you can run anywhere.0.0alternatives →#03tidyBdEA Banco de España CSV scraper just learned to query the bank's live statistics API.0.0alternatives →#04FedDataFedData has spent two major versions migrating US federal geodata off R's retiring spatial stack.0.0alternatives →#05washdatawashdata is a fixed survey dataset; eight years of releases have changed only its packaging.0.0alternatives →#06austraitsThe R client for AusTraits spends its releases chasing the dataset it reads.0.0alternatives →#07worldbankA World Bank data wrapper that keeps finding the places its own API can't reach.0.0alternatives →#08spanishoddataspanishoddata spent a year finding out its 2020-2021 data was quietly incomplete.0.0alternatives →#09forcisA foraminifera data-access package whose entire release history is the rOpenSci review process.0.0alternatives →#10bagyobagyo reached CRAN as a Philippine tropical cyclone dataset, with its tags stamped out of order.0.0alternatives →#11flightsbrBrazil's flight-data package keeps working around what ANAC publishes and when.0.0alternatives →#12tidytransittidytransit tracks the GTFS spec as it grows, one reader and one router feature at a time.0.0alternatives →#13wasserportalA Berlin groundwater scraper grew a full IoT publishing pipeline in two days.0.0alternatives →#14rphylopicThe R package that puts organism silhouettes on plots keeps widening where they can be drawn.0.0alternatives →#15gutenbergrgutenbergr has been rebuilt around caching and mirror resilience0.0alternatives →
Frequently asked questions about open data
Which SaaS tools ship open data in Analytics in 2026?
r-owidapi, etn, tidyBdE, FedData, washdata, and 10 more — the open data products Sparkpulse tracks in Analytics, ranked by shipping velocity from verified changelogs.
Which open data product has the highest shipping velocity?
r-owidapi, with the top velocity score (2.5/10) in Analytics — Sparkpulse's velocity score is derived from verified release data.
How many products are shipping around open data?
Sparkpulse currently tracks 15 products carrying the open data theme in Analytics, updated continuously from verified release data.