Couple of weeks ago, I was looking for interesting data sets to play with using R. I came across this post and got inspired to use World Bank data to extract interesting patterns/facts about developing countries. World Bank has 300+ World Development indicators on 200+ countries from 1960 to 2008.
I plotted BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations against USA. Here are some plots on a few topics...
Economic Policy and External Debt
Education
Environment
Financial Sector
Health
Infrastructure
Labor
Private Sector
Public Sector
Science and Technology
Social Development
Urban Improvement
Nice post. Thanks for the graphs!
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Nice series of plots.
ReplyDeleteYou could consider writing a function to download data using the WDI package mentioned by vincent and automatically produce some of the graphs. This would allow you to update the graphs with minimal effort down the line.
pretty pictures, where's the code?
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