The ‘Work and Corona’ Dashboard
Open-science efforts often remain limited to the scientific community. Attempts to increase the audience, focus largely on communicating selected research results. The Work-and-Corona (WoCo) project aims to exemplify how quantitative social science projects can make their data accessible, thus connecting open science with public communication of scientific research. The Work and Corona (WoCo) project provides flexible, free and easy to use access to public opinion data in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria. To that end, we programmed a data visualisation dashboard (https://woco.univie.ac.at/dashboard/) that displays aggregated survey data from the Austrian Corona Panel Project, an academically designed public opinion survey. This paper describes the dataset used, the process of data aggregation and processing and a set of technical details on the programming of the dashboard. The paper further describes the workflow of the project enabling other researchers to provide similar forms of public data access. We provide full access to our code.