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possible interaction with Socrata's UNDP website #33

Closed danhammer closed 8 years ago

danhammer commented 8 years ago

Check out this website. It is powered by a bunch of pretty good APIs, including these examples:

http://mdg-sdg3d.undp.org/en/country-database/countries/ken/goals/2/indicators/429.json

Note that you can change ken in the URL to, say, ago to switch countries from Kenya to Angola. There are also a few other endpoints that are neat, including this one that tracks the number of SDGs involving each country:

http://mdg-sdg3d.undp.org/en/country-database.json?iso=ROU

Seems worth thinking about, maybe building visualizations or something.

pythagoraswitch commented 8 years ago

Thank you for the note, @danhammer! I also saw the website at the GPSDDA meeting and took notes as well. Great point -- would be great to incorporate it in some way. cc @brunosan

liang3404814 commented 8 years ago

Hi @danhammer and @pythagoraswitch, those are great finds!

While you are free to play around with the json endpoint you found, it is meant to be consumed by the site itself, and is thus subject to changes without notification. We don't want you to write something amazing to access the data through this endpoint, and then becomes broken :cry: because we changed it!

For this reason, I recommend you to check out the Socrata dataset. The dataset exposes an API that allows you to query the dataset with filters and queries. In fact, it is this very API that powers the the site. A (machine-generated) documentation can be accessed under Export / SODA API / API Docs

Thank you!

brunosan commented 8 years ago

Thank @danhammer for the discovery and sharing, and thank you @liang3404814 for the clarification and pointer to the API. UNDP data is mostly available also via Bank's API, so I think we'll have several sources when we start pulling live data. (Excited for that time to come asap!)

Closing as not actionable right now.

jeffkaplan88 commented 8 years ago

Bruno, This MDG data from UNDP may not be available via the Bank or any other source. It has been scraped from 15 years of national MDG reports -- all in PDFs -- sent to UNDP from countries via their country offices. Not sure this raw data exists anywhere else.