Thanks! I don’t know R well enough, but can this code be used to update the
dataset and add 2012? @Jenny (on CC)?
Lex
> On 23 Jan 2017, at 16:58, François Michonneau <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> 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
>>>
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