piersyork / owidPy

A Python Package for Importing Data from Our World in Data

owidPy

A package for importing data from Our World in Data into Python. Currently in the early stages of development.

Install

pip install owidPy

How to use

To search for data you can use owid_search(). This function takes a key word as an argument and then returns the chart_ids of datasets that match the keyword. Owid() then takes a chart_id and returns an instance of the Owid class.

owid_search('rights')
owid = Owid('human-rights-scores')

To see the raw data, you can do:

owid.data

Plotting

This functionality is not fully developed yet. To very quickly visualise the data you can use:

owid.plot()