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World Bank - World Development Indicators #20

Open vincentarelbundock opened 11 years ago

vincentarelbundock commented 11 years ago

http://data.worldbank.org/ http://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

@vincentarelbundock like it. Do you have some specific suggestions for indicators to include?

vincentarelbundock commented 11 years ago

Oh I don't know. All of them? I'm not entirely sure I understand what the scope of your project is, so I guess it would depend. All 8000+ World Development Indicator series (country-year panels, mostly) are available in one big CSV file. It's just a matter of pivoting the axes if you want series as columns and country-year indices as rows. I've done a little bit of work with this dataset, so I may be able to help a bit, but it's all very straightforward.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/WDI/index.html

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

What's the link to the big CSV file and how big is it?

In the first instance I think we probably want to have one series per dataset (part of the purpose of using CSV and git is that we can track changes in the data better which is hard in one massive file)

vincentarelbundock commented 11 years ago

Here on the right-hand side

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

Thanks - other thing i notice is you may be a bit of an R expert. As such wonder if you would be interested to contribute on this issue https://github.com/okfn/data.okfn.org/issues/23

BTW: if you want to understand more about what this is about see http://data.okfn.org/ and esp http://data.okfn.org/about