On 26/04/2013 1:28 PM, Nick Dowling nick_dowl...@hotmail.com wrote:
It would be worth considering whether the ABS is actually funded to
provide the IT infrastructure and staff time needed to set up and maintain
arrangements to allow people to download the entire Census dataset (which I
suspect
I find the ABS better than most government departments. Although I haven't
found stable deeplinks to census data, I'm reasonably happy with everything
else.
Just a reminder that every timeseries the ABS makes available (all 64293 of
them) has been plotted, is available on Commons, and gets
Do I trust journalists? Not a lot. Do I believe in the scientific method?
Yes, I do, so I decided to try downloading the census data and see what
happened.
I googled ABS census and it took me to a likely looking page. I followed
the link and registered an account (requiring the usual name,
It might be worth pointing out that the ABS responded to the original
criticism:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/339819,abs-hobbles-census-data-downloaders.asp
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Their response (attached at the bottom of the URL above) says:
ABS responds
A spokesperson for the ABS said the $250
It would be worth considering whether the ABS is actually funded to provide the
IT infrastructure and staff time needed to set up and maintain arrangements to
allow people to download the entire Census dataset (which I suspect would be a
fairly unusual requirement). In my experience ABS staff
be interesting discussion as to whether WMAu could get someone create a bot
to download/publish the full database to Wikisource since its all CC and
have the bot update the population data on Wikidata...
If anything WMAU could even approach the ABS and consider someway of
hosting the highuse
