World Bank Projects and Globe Interface Upgrades
Issue: September, 2015
| Since our last newsletter, GLOBE has been fined tuned with improvements ranging from a redesigned interface to an updated similarity analysis. Now, the GLOBE team would like to share two new exciting updates. We have added thousands of World Bank Projects to our case library and have further improved our redesigned interface. Read about them in this month’s newsletter! |
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More than 14,000 World Bank Projects Mapped into GLOBE
GLOBE has added over 14,000 World Bank project site locations to its case library. We hope that the GLOBE community will take full advantage of this new dataset!
Pictured above is the entire World Bank project sites collection
Do World Bank projects actually represent the world? Find out using the newly added World Bank cases and a global representativeness analysis. A saved representative analysis can be viewed here.
GLOBE has partnered with AidData and has added over 14,000 various World Bank projects to its case library. Users can view these World Bank cases individually, as collections organized by sector, or as an entire collection. We hope that the GLOBE community will take full advantage of this new dataset!
Major Updates to the GLOBE Interface
GLOBE now includes cases derived from reports and research sites – so the GLOBE team has added a color coded filtering system. This filtering system makes it easy to separately view academic sources, reports & documents, and research site datasets. Now users can quickly toggle between source types to find the cases that are most relevant to their own interests.
Pictured above is a case search for “Site and Data” source types that include the keyword “World Bank”
We have also updated GLOBE’s case browser with a faster and more interactive interface. Additionally, GLOBE now has a handy “Excel Download” button in both the representativeness analysis and collection view screens. This download button has the same functionality as the data sheet exporter, but without the data sheets. For more details on the addition of AidData’s World Bank projects and the case search update within GLOBE, read our blog posts here and here and check out our new World Bank documentation page.
For more information about what is going on in GLOBE check out our forum page, blog posts and more on our main site.
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