Hi there, I am working on an initiative called factmata (factmata.com). The aim is that given a particular claim e.g. “US unemployment is skyrocketting”, we want to build a tool for users to be able to view a chart, graph or figure from best official source for this on the page via a Chrome extension.
Our original source of data was the World Bank databank, but this we have realised has only annual statistics and stopped updating in 2014 for most statistics. Thus, if a user is checking a statement like “unemployment is at 6%” on Twitter, seeing a chart of a figure that stopped in 2014 isn’t very helpful.
Thus, what is the most up to date source of national statistics? Else, if we can’t directly interface with an API, how can we trigger a web search amongst a portal of up to date national statistics (one site for all countries), else even have a whitelist of relevant URLs for each countries statistics (non-aggregated, country by country, site by site). I am also looking at Statista and Knoema and tradingeconomics.com.
They seem to have done the job of everyone since 2011 and gathered all the world’s economic statistics! Had never heard of them. Anyone used them or have any experience with Knoema?
Hi @ghulatid, I’m building NumHub a community driven statistics database. Are you still looking for the API? Would love to chat, my email is username at domain.
Hi @ghulatid I really agree this is an issue. We (myself and colleagues at Open Knowledge, Datopian and Viderum) been working on curating up-to-date data for people at the DataHub https://datahub.io/ over many years. Recently we’ve been putting quite a bit of effort into this especially in the collections section: Dataset Collections - DataHub - Frictionless Data which may be relevant for your needs.
Hi ghulatid, have you tried unibit.ai? there’re more than 500,000 macroeconomic indicators that you can request. The indicators are indexed in the pretty simple-to-use search bar