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jennybc / gapminder

Excerpt from the Gapminder data, as an R data package and in plain text delimited form
http://jennybc.github.io/gapminder/
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Russia is missing #40

Open pschloss opened 1 month ago

pschloss commented 1 month ago

I noticed that the gapminder site appears to have data for Russia, but it is missing from {gapminder}. If there's another release of the package it might be nice to have these data included.

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jennybc commented 1 month ago

If I search this repo for "russia", it comes up quite frequently in the data preparation code:

https://github.com/search?q=repo:jennybc/gapminder%20russia&type=code

I can't immediately see any sort of explicit reason why Russia fell out of the dataset. It would take some sleuthing: re-running parts of the data prep code while keeping a specific eye on Russia to see when/why it disappears.

And then there's the question of whether to add it. Maybe? But it's not entirely clear. This dataset has various flaws and out-of-date qualities. It has become a bit like mtcars or iris. Fixing issues has some value, but so does stability.

In any case, I think it's worth some study.