A few days ago I completed enough edits to a project I’ve been working on in my spare time to go live with OpenFisheries.org. The site is in early beta, and for now shows a Protovis implementation of what graphics on the site will look like as the dynamic elements are added. The state of [...]

Stata’s -levelsof- command was a solution to a problem I encountered the other day when I had to write a script that looped through a dataset and was one that I previously didn’t know about. In general, I feel that if you find yourself making looping through observations in a dataset or creating many nested [...]

I love the new World Bank data site. The site makes finding and downloading data from the World Development Indicators very easy. But, I dream of searching the World Bank databases and downloading datasets directly into Stata all without leaving my Stata terminal. The World Bank offers an API for it’s data that has already [...]

This post is mostly a note to myself covering some of the research I’ve been doing over the past day with mapping data for the web. I’ve found a number of really nice interactive mapping tools that I’m looking into including Mapbox, OpenLayers, Polymaps and Google Maps API. Although they look nice, I’ve been avoiding [...]

This has the potential to be a great new source of data. After an brief initial browse through I get the feeling that there is a lot here but it’s not exactly easy to search. Nonetheless, it’s movement in the right direction – open data. via Network of European Economists Online Dataverse – IQSS Dataverse Network.