Re: [Gretl-devel] Contribution to DB.NOMICS
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, Henrique Andrade wrote:
Dear Allin,
The main public providers of economic data here is Brazil are the
Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) and IBGE. Take a look at the Wikipedia
entry:
"The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE is the
agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic,
cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil."
They both have API's for retrieve data and I know how to use them
(actually I wrote some scripts that we use at Ministry of Finance). I
was thinking to send an email to DB.NOMICS offering that solution but
I had a better idea: IMHO, it would be great, in terms of Gretl's
visibility, that this kind of help could be done by the Gretl Team
itself.
That's a nice idea, but since you're the one with expertise in the
area I think it would make sense for you to offer assistance. My
understanding is that each dbnomics provider has a coder assigned to
it, so I guess it would be a matter of finding out who's assigned to
the BCB. Of course you can mention that you're a member of the gretl
team. We actually have a certain presence at dbnomics; most of the
posts in their forum over the last couple of months are from Jack and
myself, and "API for Gretl" is one of the most viewed topics.
Additionally we could try to be listed at Resources section of the
DB.NOMICS website (today it has R and Python listed).
Yes, although I think the R and Python clients have been developed by
the dbnomics guys themselves, and are hosted on git.nomics.world. We'd
certainly like for the gretl client to be known but I guess we want to
keep its development in our own git-space.
Allin