Introduction
The purpose of this dashboard is to help users
without programming skills explore aggregated data in the DSA Transparency Database. These instructions
are to assist you in making the best use of all the available features.
Overview
This dashboard comprises 6 pages, in addition to
these instructions. Each page contains some visualizations, typically grouped by theme, such as
timelines, violations, or restrictions. In addition, the last “Other analyses” page shows a breakdown of
statements of reasons by content type.
It also shows how the grounds for the restrictions imposed and the information source used relate to one
another as well as the relationship between automatic content moderation decisions and automatic
detection of content for moderation.
Data update
The data is updated every day at 06:00 (CET).
Definitions
For definitions of terms used, please refer to the
FAQ
section and the
API documentation of the DSA Transparency
Database.
Kindly note that “violations” refer to the variable “category” of the API documentation.
Interactivity
Each visualization is interactive: 1) additional
information is provided when the mouse hovers over a visualization, and 2) you can click on any of the
elements (e.g. bars, charts, labels) to highlight specific data. The rest of the visualizations in the
page will accordingly highlight the relevant data.
Note that highlights apply only to the page in
which they are triggered. For filters that apply to all the pages, use the ‘filters’ menu on the top
left – see below.
Filters
The three lines on the top left of the dashboard
open the filters menu.
Select the element you want to focus on (e.g.,
specific platform(s), types of violations or restrictions), and the visualizations on all the pages will
update accordingly.
To close the filters menu, click on the ‘back’
button on the right of the menu.
To remove all applied filters, press the ‘Remove
all filters’ button at the bottom of the menu.
Please refer to the
FAQ
section about the filters that are available.
Selecting multiple elements
Keep the ‘Ctrl’ button pressed to select multiple
items on any interactive element of the dashboard or filters.
This way, you can, for example, select all the
social media platforms or all online marketplaces, or different combinations of violations or
restrictions.
Zooming on the Y-axis
In some visualizations, the orders of magnitude of
data vary significantly, from thousands to billions. In these cases, ‘zoom in’ on the y-axis by
scrolling the bar on the left of the graph, where it is available.
Focus mode
You can maximize any visualization by pressing the
'focus mode' button, on the top right of the visualization.
Viewing detailed figures
You can view the data as a table, by
right-clicking on any visualization and selecting 'Show as a table'.
It is not possible to download individual
statements of reason from the dashboard. For this, kindly use the
Data Download functionality.
Adjusting the date format
By default, the dashboard considers your
browser’s settings for the format of displaying dates. Therefore, you may see dates as MM/DD/YYYY,
instead of DD/MM/YYYY. To see dates in the latter format, change your browser’s language preference.
For example, for Google Chrome, type on the URL
box: chrome://settings/languages and choose “English (United Kingdom, Oxford English Dictionary
spelling)” as the preferred language. For Firefox, go to 'Settings', select 'Languages' and choose
'English (GB)'.
