[okfn-labs] Salary Converter

[Nigel Babu]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Nigel Babu <nigelbabu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I sat down last night to write down the process into a blog post[1].
Please feel free to reuse it from the School of Data blog.

[1] http://nigelb.me/python/mozilla/2012/08/31/the-making-of-equivalent-salary-calculator.html

Cheers
Nigel