Hi Dav, I'm copying Margareth Gfrerer and Mesfin Diro, Carpentries colleagues from Ethiopia. They have been running R hackathons with the aim of helping researchers and students think about how they can use open data to facilitate data driven decision making around topics where emotion often plays a big role in decision making.
They have been using worldbank data as far as I remember. https://data.worldbank.org/. There are some amazing datasets. Worldbank data is in general available under CC-BY 4.0 with some additional conditions (https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use). The licensing terms are very clear, which makes it easy to use and to tell others how they can use it. One can also access data via an API or via the website, so it is possible to teach students about the use of APIs to access data too if that is the level which you're aiming for. Margareth and Mesfin may be able to answer more questions if you have any. Hope this is helpful. Kind regards, Anelda On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:59 PM Dav Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm putting together a demo project that I'm tentatively basing on > gapminder plus the stack overflow developer survey. A central goal is to > have datasets of different sizes to motivate cherry picking data from a > larger dataset as-needed (as one might do with specialized git lfs commands > or git annex). > > So I'm trying to figure out what aspects of gapminder are interesting and > redistributable. I know we have the following data in the R gapminder > lesson (and also for the corresponding python lesson): > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swcarpentry/r-novice-gapminder/gh-pages/_episodes_rmd/data/gapminder_data.csv > > What's the license on this data? Is it freely redistributable? Does anyone > know if there's an easy to navigate source for navigating the libre data > from https://www.gapminder.org/data/ ? > > Relatedly, if someone has a suggestion for data that's good for helping > students generate and answer their own questions, I'd love to hear it! > > Best, > Dav > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T98ea05ec05490a70-M0919dc0d0e2001625f1b11d3> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T98ea05ec05490a70-M3c6094d8e66e850333cb6dbd Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
