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Data for the 2014 ebola outbeak in West Africa
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Universal variables? #106

Open cmrivers opened 10 years ago

cmrivers commented 10 years ago

How do you feel about changing the variable names to be consistent across countries? Right now it is a mix of the variables as described in the sitreps (which include whitespace and punctuation), and more machine-friendly shortened variable names. The change would cover both old and new files. cc @pallih

pallih commented 10 years ago

I think it's a good idea. It makes things easier across the board. For systems/parsers that use the current variables there could be a translation file in the root.

jwarbington commented 10 years ago

Agreed - we've had to adjust on the fly to compare across countries, and making the variable names consistent across the board would help with holistic views of the information.

chrisvoncsefalvay commented 10 years ago

:+1: on that one, it'd save a lot of munging!

ghost commented 10 years ago

yep yep