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OliverSherouse / wbdata

A python library for accessing world bank data
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Comparison to pandas-datareader World Bank data #32

Closed MaxGhenis closed 5 years ago

MaxGhenis commented 5 years ago

After discovering wbdata today, I just discovered the pandas_datareader package, which includes World Bank data support and is developed under pydata (it apparently used to be part of pandas itself). It looks to have similar functionality as wbdata, but I've only used it a bit. Thought it'd be good to be aware of.

I filed a parallel issue there at https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/624.

OliverSherouse commented 5 years ago

Yes, I was aware of this functionality in pandas-datareader, and in fact, I at one point had this project labeled as superseded. But the functionality and style is slightly different, and for whatever reason people seem to like this library, so I'll keep it rolling while I feel like that's the case.