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repository for the Australian rOpenSci unconference 2016!
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R package for accessing data.gov.au open data sets via API #16

Open jonocarroll opened 8 years ago

jonocarroll commented 8 years ago

I've worked with some data sets from data.gov.au and noticed that they do have a CKAN API that I can't immediately find any R package associated with (most happy to be corrected). 

GET http://www.data.gov.au/api/3/action/group_list

The data is mostly well-organised with attached metadata, various formats, and proper attributions to the relevant department. It's an under-utilised resource as far as I can tell, and there are currently big pushes to better use this (e.g. GovHack challenges).

This doesn't immediately strike me as an insurmountable task (just watch, it will prove me wrong) but one that would have a pretty good payoff in data availability.

njtierney commented 8 years ago

Great idea!

Stephen-Gates commented 8 years ago

This will probably do the trick https://github.com/ropensci/ckanr

jonocarroll commented 8 years ago

Nice, half-way there already!

I'm starting this one up either way.

jonocarroll commented 8 years ago

I'm still interested in this project too, in case anyone would like to work on it with me.

Some reading to get the juices flowing...

https://blogstats.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/next-step-in-ogd-websites/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-s-wrong-with-open-data-sites-and-how-we-can-fix-them/

http://datausa.io/about/datasets/

and ties in with #23. I would love to see a shiny version of this for Aus data. How cool would that be?!?!

Put a watch alert on https://github.com/jonocarroll/RDataGovAU if you're keen on working on this.