[open-economics] Global Economic Map on Wikipedia

Sun Sep 29 17:16:37 UTC 2013

This is pretty cool. You should consider making this data query'able. We
did something similar with energy data (see enipedia.org), where we
leverage off existing wikipedia data (+ number of other data sources) - but
allow user to query the data by using SPARQL. That way we can create
charts, tables, summaries, aggregates, check for consistency (GDP = GDP per
capita * population) and so on.
One of the more interesting examples of data aggregation we created is
global gas trade network (see
http://enipedia.tudelft.nl/wiki/GasOverview/GasFlowsNetwork), which is an
output of a simple query.

Alfredas

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Marc Joffe <marc at publicsectorcredit.org>wrote:

> Alan****
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> This looks like a very interesting initiative.  The fact that you would be
> leveraging existing Wikipedia content will allow you to launch a very
> complete offering with limited data collection effort.  Have you considered
> going beyond GDP to also including government revenue and expenditure
> data?  That would make the project more relevant to OKFN’s OpenSpending
> community.****
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> Marc****
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> *From:* open-economics-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
> open-economics-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Alex Peek
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 28, 2013 11:20 PM
> *To:* open-economics at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* [open-economics] Global Economic Map on Wikipedia****
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> The Global Economic Map is a data set that revolves around GDP. Every
> country, region and city in the world will have their own article.****
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> Project proposal and explanation here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Global_Economic_Map****
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> Any feedback or advice?****
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> Thanks,****
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> Alex****
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