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IndeterminateYogurt OP t1_j2cz73q wrote

Reply to comment by kthnxbai123 in [OC] Around 30% of countries spend more than 2% of GDP on their military by IndeterminateYogurt

thanks! yeah, the World Bank thankfully supplies metadata regarding regions. Generally a great source for socioeconomic data that is easy to use! Theres even an R package to download data directly from their servers.

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MMAgeezer t1_j2dgsrb wrote

Thank you for the introduction to wbstats, it looks really handy!

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IndeterminateYogurt OP t1_j2dh2kg wrote

Actually used a different one (quite a while ago, can't remember the name), but this one looks even more functional, so thank you for the recommendation! :D

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MMAgeezer t1_j2di87f wrote

Ah okay cool, this was just the first one that came up upon searching! It has really nice features like cached data and the ability to search for indicators with regex.

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remembermereddit t1_j2e2kb0 wrote

If only you took the colorblinds into consideration. I can't make anything of it unfortunately.

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MMAgeezer t1_j2e7kbr wrote

For anyone reading this:

You can display a list of colourblind pallets directly in RStudio, run the following with RColorBrewer installed:

display.brewer.all(colorblindFriendly = TRUE)
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