Data from the World Health Organization API by Peter’s stats stuff – R.
From the post:
Eric Persson released yesterday a new WHO R package which allows easy access to the World Health Organization’s data API. He’s also done a nice vignette introducing its use.
I had a play and found it was easy access to some interesting data. Some time down the track I might do a comparison of this with other sources, the most obvious being the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, to identify relative advantages – there’s a lot of duplication of course. It’s a nice problem to have, too much data that’s too easy to get hold of. I wish we’d had that problem when I studied aid and development last century – I vividly remember re-keying numbers from almanac-like hard copy publications, and pleased we were to have them too!
Here’s a plot showing country-level relationships between the latest data of three indicators – access to contraception, adolescent fertility, and infant mortality – that help track the Millennium Development Goals.
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With visualizations and R code!
A nice way to start off your data mining week!
Enjoy!
I first saw this in a tweet by Christophe Lalanne.