Apologies, I forgot to include the link to the repo: https://github.com/jennybc/gapminder
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:56 AM, François Michonneau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lex, > > The data we use for the lessons (at least for R) are actually coming > from the gapminder R package put together by Jenny Brian. The package > contains the code used to tidy the data from the spreadsheets made > available by the gapminder website. It might be worth putting a pull > request together to update the data there, and then it will be easy to > update the data in our lessons. > > Cheers, > -- François > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Lex Nederbragt > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The gapminderDataFiveYear data that I have on my harddisk, and the ones from >> the python and R 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/ (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. >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
