EconData and the world of single source automatable data

May 15, 2022 00:14:00
EconData and the world of single source automatable data
Economic Research Southern Africa
EconData and the world of single source automatable data

May 15 2022 | 00:14:00

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Show Notes

In this podcast we learn how EconData has solved a couple problems that many economic students, academics and researchers have encountered: firstly, the limited accessibility of South African macroeconomic time-series data, and secondly the inefficiencies related to cleaning a dataset, that someone else has most likely already done. Here, twoof the Codera Analytics and EconData co-founders, Daan Steenkamp and Byron Botha, explain how this platform not only provides over 80 000 macroeconomic time-series data points from South Africa’s rich data landscape, but updates them automatically thereby enabling the automation of workflows. Starting with an internal collection of scripts, the data collection […]

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