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stacodelists: use standard, language-independent variable codes to help international data interoperability and machine reuse in R

A new building block of our Green Deal Data Observatory went through code peer review and was released yesterday. The statcodelists R package aim to promote the reuse and exchange of statistical information and related metadata with making the internationally standardized SDMX code lists available for the R user.

Including Indicators from Arab Barometer in Our Observatory

A new version of the retroharmonize R package – which is working with retrospective, ex post harmonization of survey data – was released yesterday after peer-review on CRAN. It allows us to compare opinion polling data from the Arab Barometer with the Eurobarometer and Afrorbarometer. This is the first version that is released in the rOpenGov community, a community of R package developers on open government data analytics and related topics.

Open Data - The New Gold Without the Rush

If open data is the new gold, why even those who release fail to reuse it? We created an open collaboration of data curators and open-source developers to dig into novel open data sources and/or increase the usability of existing ones. We transform reproducible research software into research- as-service.

Analyze Locally, Act Globally: New regions R Package Release

There are numerous advantages of switching from a national level of the analysis to a sub-national level comes with a huge price in data processing, validation and imputation, and the regions package aims to help this process.