
If you enter “GDP” into the search bar there, it will suggest indicators that are much closer to what you likely want. The WDIsearch() function may be situationally useful, but I recommend going to the website (especially if you’re completely new to these data). Knowing what you (should) know about the data of interest, that tells you the indicator for the ease of doing business score is IC. WDIsearch ( "ease of" ) %>% as_tibble () #> # A tibble: 12 × 2 #> indicator name #> #> 1 IC. Ease of doing business score (0 … #> 2 IC.1014 Global: Ease of doing business s… #> 3 IC.15 Ease of doing business score (DB… #> 4 IC.16 Global: Ease of doing business s… #> 5 IC.DB1719 Global: Ease of doing business s… #> 6 IC. Ease of doing business index (1=… #> 7 LP. Ease of arranging competitively … #> 8 LP. Logistics performance index: Eas… #> 9 .010.DB0614 Protecting minority investors: E… #> 10 .010.DB1519 Protecting minority investors: E… #> 11 .SSI.XD. Protecting minority investors: E… #> 12 .SSI.XD. Protecting minority investors: E… If you were interested in something much more narrow, like the “ease of doing business” scores, the output is much easier to manage. This tutorial will be about using the is not a tibble, so your console will get spammed with stuff that you may or may not find helpful.Īdmittedly, this is a broad search knowing how common GDP is in economic indicators. The second was on the various joins in R. The first lesson was a tutorial on various state (country) classification systems. However, I can offer some things to help the student with their research. Substantively, much of what they want to do is outside my wheelhouse. The particular student is pursuing a research program in international political economy. Going forward, I’m probably just going to copy-paste this introduction for future posts for this independent study. This should help the student and possibly help others who stumble onto my website. 1 Toward that end, I’m going to offer most (if not all) of the independent study sessions as posts on my blog.

The goal is to better train the student for their research agenda beyond what I could plausibly teach them in a given semester.

My graduate studies program director asked me to teach an independent study for a graduate student this semester.
