[open-economics] Econ Factbook

[Alex Peek]

Thank you Everton! That is my plan to set up an API for Econ Factbook
<http://econfactbook.org/>. I want to use this website to create some
simple and easy to use visualizations but I am not sure how long it will
take to get to that stage. Great idea tho.

Right now I am looking for a lead programmer to help me expand Econ
Factbook. If you are interested, please send me an email. This is an
opportunity to be involved in a high potential website. The lead programmer
would play a pivotal role in identifying possibilities and limitations when
developing the website.

My idea is that the internet needs better websites to access economic data.
After years of research I have come to the conclusion that there is not a
website that structures economic data to display the activity of an
economy. That is why I created Econ Factbook to fill this void. The goal of
the website is to show all of the wealth and assets flowing around an
economy in a single model. I believe this concept can greatly increase the
transparency of economic data about the world. I know in my heart that this
is the direction the study of economics needs to go.

Here is an example of the format used in the website: South Korea
<http://econfactbook.org/Southkorea.html>. The United States
<http://econfactbook.org/Unitedstates.html> article is the best because it
shows the government budget breakdown, household wealth breakdown and local
government statistics. I hope to someday have every country article be as
complete as the United States article.

Please let me know if you want to get involved or learn more.

Thanks!

- Alex

On 15 August 2015 at 05:13, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton.alvarenga at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hello, Alex.
>
> That is cool. I believe if some developer could help you to build an API
> for this data, that could help other make graphs with interesting
> comparisons from it.
>
> Best,
>
> Everton
>
> 2015-06-13 14:53 GMT-03:00 Alex Peek <alexpeek1 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I wanted to show the community my new website at econfactbook.org.
>> Please click on one of the countries on the website to see the format.
>>
>> It's designed to be a reference tool to look up economic data. I hope
>> this website is useful and generates more ideas.
>>
>> - Alex
>>
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