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Sources of economic data in the world and the possibilities of their treatment with the R software
SVOBODA, Marek
The main target of this bachelor thesis is to describe acquiring economic data from the online sources and show examples of processing the data in program R. The theoretical part of this thesis presents ten online sources of economic data and basic information about program R and programming language R. The sources that are described here are The World Bank Data, United Nations Data, IMF Data, WTO Data, OECD Data, The World Factbook (by CIA), Wolfram|Aplha, Eurostat, Czech Statistical Office and Quandl. The operator of each source is briefly introduced and then the possibilities of acquiring data for each source are described. The practical part of the thesis presents four libraries in program R which are focused on acquiring data. The libraries which are described here are WDI, eurostat, wbstats and Quandl. The possibilities of acquiring data and practical usage of methods the library provides in program R are shown for each library. Then the examples of transforming and processing the acquired data in program R are described.
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