NICS Email Traffic: Monthly Network Email Summary

Monthly summary of emails sent and received by the NICS network. The dataset is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in government email volume based on monthly summaries
• Model network load and communication patterns based on sent and received email counts
• Benchmark departmental communication activity based on network-level email traffic

Strengths

• Data is updated monthly, providing regular snapshots.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.805280; freshness should be verified.