Suggested country-year file formats
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lapidus commented
"Simple" - use:
id, year, value
https://github.com/devinit/digital-platform/blob/master/country-year/infant-mortality.csv
"Composite" - use:
id, dim, dim, year, value
https://github.com/devinit/digital-platform/blob/master/country-year/employment-by-sector.csv
"Multi" - use:
id-from, id-to, dim, dim, dim, year, value
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devinit/digital-platform/master/country-year/oda.csv
bill-anderson commented
I thought what you were suggesting on Friday was to represent all ids as dims. That seemed to make sense to me. The "ids" are all just country/entities, right?
lapidus commented
Indeed, they are just dims of the type id/entitiy