Re:Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers
by minimaxir on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @11:18AM
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Correct in this case, but you could use a simple CSV to get World Bank data as well.
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Re:Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers
by tonyabell on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @12:50PM
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The benefit of using a Type Provider over an CSV is it provides a strongly typed api to the data. Which gives you tooling (IntelliSense) and makes it hard to impossible to have type errors.