Hi,
The gapminderDataFiveYear data that I have on my harddisk, and the ones from
the python <http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-gapminder/> and R
<http://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/> lessons using the gap minder
data, runs from 1952 to 2007. I thought it would be nice to add the 2012 data,
it being 2017, after all.
So I went to what I guessed to be the original source,
https://www.gapminder.org/data/ <https://www.gapminder.org/data/> (that was
easy), and checked a few of the population size numbers from the years in the
datasets we use. I choose "Population, total” as dataset, which can be viewed
as google sheet here
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IbDM8z5XicMIXgr93FPwjgwoTTKMuyLfzU6cQrGZzH8/pub?gid=0>.
The numbers are not the same, in some cases they are quite much lower or
higher, while in others they are more close.
The other data sources are a bit harder to compare. There are a few GDP/Capita
datasets, I think "Income per person (GDP/capita, PPP$ inflation-adjusted)”
comes closest, but the numbers are quite a bit higher than in ‘our’ dataset.
"Life expectancy (years)” is close, but also off.
Should we update our numbers and add 2012? This could be done with some smart
webscraping, I think?
Best,
Lex Nederbragt_______________________________________________
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