Open Data, Decoded
What public data actually says
Public plant-science datasets, turned into maps, charts, and reproducible conclusions.
- Published
- Records
- 9,843
NCBI
The Famine Pathogen Has 8 Genomes. A Leaf Spot Bacterium Has 1,788.
I took the plant pathogens that scientists themselves voted the world's worst, and counted how many public genomes each one has. The gap is not about importance. It is about which genomes are easy to sequence.
- Potato late blight
- 8
- Pseudomonas syringae
- 1,788
- Bacteria vs the rest
- 48×
- Flax rust
- 0
Open visual story
- Published
- Records
- 170,605
OpenAlex + FAOSTAT
AI Studies Tomatoes More Than Wheat
The world grows six times more maize than tomatoes. AI research does the opposite: tomatoes get more plant disease papers than maize, rice or wheat. Here is what the numbers show, and why it happens.
- Tomato papers
- 2,848
- Maize papers
- 1,658
- The gap
- 11.5×
- Sugarcane
- 0.2
Open visual story
- Published
- Records
- 1,170
GBIF.org
Can Free Data Spot a Plant Disease Outbreak?
Anyone can download every public record of Xylella, a bacterium that killed millions of olive trees. I checked whether those free records actually noticed the outbreaks we know happened. Sometimes they did. Sometimes they missed completely.
- Italy
- Same year
- Germany
- 10 years
- Portugal
- Never
- Records checked
- 1,170
Open visual story