World Bank Data

Rhythms of Equality and Inequality

February 6, 2011 | Ethan Brown

Today I unveil my very first statistical YouTube video! I will do anything to keep you statisfied, and if that means YouTube, then so be it. But first, some exposition: In Panama, 10 percent of the population owned 45 percent of the income in 2000, whereas the bottom 10 percent owned only 0.6 percent. How [...] [Read more...]

3 lines of R code to Process a Web Service

June 9, 2010 | C

Ruby is well known for its terse syntax and ability to process web services. I prefer JSON (Javascript Object Notation) to XML whenever possible. For example, a script to retrieve a list of World Bank Data takes all of three lines of code (after in...
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Plotting World Bank Data with R

June 8, 2010 | C

Copy and paste the code listed in this post below, and you can create a plot of World Bank data using R with a call like the following:plotWorldBank('USA','NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG')There is a wealth of economic and demographic available at the World Bank. ...
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