[okfn-labs] Salary Converter

Tue Aug 28 09:29:25 UTC 2012

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:
> Nigel,
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:46:51PM +0530, Nigel Babu wrote:
>> Over the the last weekend, I built something from Get The Data
>> Challenge [1].  It's a Salary Converter app[2] which uses purchasing
>> power parity to calculate equivalent salary in another country.  It is
>> currently running on my server and the website has links to the code
>> and the data that I'm using to run the calculations.  I'd like to do
>> more, with maps, but I don't think I'll get to it this week, so I
>> thought I might as well let you guys know.
>>
>> Feedback/Suggestions/Criticisms welcome!
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.okfn.org/Get_The_Data_Challenge#Cost_of_living_...
>> [2] http://salaryconverter.nigelb.me/
>
> Great! Would you be willing to share the process with the School of Data
> audience? E.q. explain in more detail what you did and how? This could be
> featured on the School of Data blog.
>
> Michael
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Hey Michael,

Sure! It's slightly scary to write for a larger audience, but I'll try
to pen down my thought process and what I did :)

Cheers
Nigel