wdiexplorer: An R package Designed for Exploratory Analysis of World Development Indicators (WDI) Data

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Main Authors: Akinfenwa, Oluwayomi, Cahill, Niamh, Hurley, Catherine
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author Akinfenwa, Oluwayomi
Cahill, Niamh
Hurley, Catherine
author_facet Akinfenwa, Oluwayomi
Cahill, Niamh
Hurley, Catherine
contents The World Development Indicators (WDI) database provides a wide range of global development data, maintained and published by the World Bank. Our \textit{wdiexplorer} package offers a comprehensive workflow that sources WDI data via the \textit{WDI} R package, prepares and explores country-level panel data of the WDI through computational functions to calculate diagnostic metrics and visualise the outputs. By leveraging the functionalities of \textit{wdiexplorer} package, users can efficiently explore any indicator dataset of the WDI, compute diagnostic indices, and visualise the metrics by incorporating the pre-defined grouping structures to identify patterns, outliers, and other interesting features of temporal behaviours. This paper presents the \textit{wdiexplorer} package, demonstrates its functionalities using the WDI: PM$_{2.5}$ air pollution dataset, and discusses the observed patterns and outliers across countries and within groups of country-level panel data.
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spellingShingle wdiexplorer: An R package Designed for Exploratory Analysis of World Development Indicators (WDI) Data
Akinfenwa, Oluwayomi
Cahill, Niamh
Hurley, Catherine
Computation
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The World Development Indicators (WDI) database provides a wide range of global development data, maintained and published by the World Bank. Our \textit{wdiexplorer} package offers a comprehensive workflow that sources WDI data via the \textit{WDI} R package, prepares and explores country-level panel data of the WDI through computational functions to calculate diagnostic metrics and visualise the outputs. By leveraging the functionalities of \textit{wdiexplorer} package, users can efficiently explore any indicator dataset of the WDI, compute diagnostic indices, and visualise the metrics by incorporating the pre-defined grouping structures to identify patterns, outliers, and other interesting features of temporal behaviours. This paper presents the \textit{wdiexplorer} package, demonstrates its functionalities using the WDI: PM$_{2.5}$ air pollution dataset, and discusses the observed patterns and outliers across countries and within groups of country-level panel data.
title wdiexplorer: An R package Designed for Exploratory Analysis of World Development Indicators (WDI) Data
topic Computation
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07027