Data4Democracy / drug-spending

Project to understand pharmaceutical spending, currently focused on US government programs.

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Move drug spending data to data.world #8

Closed mattgawarecki closed 7 years ago

mattgawarecki commented 7 years ago

Task

Upload drug spending data to data.world for long-term storage so it can be queried and downloaded easily and independently.

How this will help

By making our data available on data.world, we accomplish a few things:

GitHub is meant for storing code; data.world is much better suited to storing and querying data
We'll be keeping the source code repository "clean" and free of potentially large, unchanging files
Likewise, anyone solely interested in our data will not have to download our code to look at it
Putting our data on data.world will expose it to a larger and more focused community more in tune with data science and analysis