简化加拿大议会数据访问:一个用户友好的R包
1École Nationale D'administration Publique (ÉNAP), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
PloS one
|July 25, 2024
概括
研究人员在访问加拿大政府开放数据方面面临挑战. 开发了一个R包,以简化从下议院获取数据,提高加拿大政治研究的可访问性.
科学领域:
- 政治科学 政治科学是指政治学.
- 数据科学数据科学数据科学
- 公共管理 公共管理
背景情况:
- 政府的开放数据倡议旨在提高透明度和促进研究.
- 访问数据集,特别是来自像加拿大下议院这样的议会来源的数据集,存在重大方法和经验障碍.
- 开放政府数据的可用性和可访问性对于有效的研究和政策分析至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 识别和解决政府开放数据的访问和利用方面的挑战,特别关注来自加拿大下议院的数据集.
- 开发和引入一个R包,旨在简化对用户不友好的数据集的检索.
- 通过提供双语 (法语和英语) 和多格式数据集,提高加拿大政府数据的可访问性.
主要方法:
- 加拿大开放政府行动计划和下议院数据集的案例研究分析.
- 开发一种用于自动检索和处理数据的新型R包.
- 在数据包实施之前和之后对数据集可访问性和可用性的比较分析.
主要成果:
- 开发的R包显著简化了访问和使用众议院数据集的过程.
- 数据集现在以两种官方语言 (法语和英语) 和多种格式提供,为更广泛的研究社区提高了可访问性.
- 三个关键的教训出现了:需要对异质数据的灵活性,数据管理员面临的挑战,以及对数据"开放"的细微理解.
结论:
- 该R包是加拿大政治和比较研究研究人员的宝贵资源.
- 开放数据倡议需要可适应的策略来克服数据异质性和策展人的挑战.
- 微妙的方法对于扩大开放数据的可访问性至关重要,考虑到实际实施的复杂性.
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