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R interface to anthropology database D-Place #36

Closed matthewgthomas closed 7 years ago

matthewgthomas commented 7 years ago

[//]: # "======================= Instructions for posting issues: (1) Write your post (below this text blob) using Markdown (as per https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/ ) or just plain text. (2) Add the appropriate labels to your post, e.g. 'idea' or 'lightning talk' (or both for idea pitches), 'interests', 'skills' or 'experience'. Use 'help wanted' as needed. (3) Don't worry about these introductory lines - you can leave or delete them, as they won't display anyway (you can check this via Preview). (4) Hit the 'Submit new issue' button. ============================" D-Place is an open online database of places, languages, cultures/societies and environments. The idea is to create an R interface for querying this database so researchers and others can fit statistical models / visualise the data (or whatever else they'd like to do). I reckon there are two potential routes:

  1. Take advantage of D-Place's RESTful API, similar to the europepmc R package
  2. Write a workflow for people to download the data (which is in its own repository) and do relevant pre-processing (D-Place's loading script is here) so they have their own local copy
Daniel-Mietchen commented 7 years ago

@matthewgthomas Do you want to give a pitch on this? If so, would be good if you could record a video/webcast of yourself explaining the matter, and upload that to YouTube or so. If that sounds too complicated, we can try to set up a Hangout or such. Ping @JosephMcArthur if you need help with that.

matthewgthomas commented 7 years ago

I've uploaded a short webcast pitch here: https://youtu.be/UMR7N193uM8 (will also Twit the link)

matthewgthomas commented 7 years ago

I managed to put together a bare-bones R package: https://github.com/matthewgthomas/rdplace Only one function at the moment, but more to come...

Daniel-Mietchen commented 7 years ago

Great!

npscience commented 7 years ago

@matthewgthomas Hiya, we're closing issues right now, because it's the end of the event. Great to see your work so far! We'd love it if you continue to post in here or at least link to any ongoing work.

matthewgthomas commented 7 years ago

@npscience Hi, I've been doing a bit more work on this package: https://github.com/matthewgthomas/dplacer