ghoclient 1.0.3

Introduction

The WHO Global Health Observatory is a large global health data repository that makes available an enormous collection of indicators which can be downloaded through their API. GHOclient is a Python client which helps data scientists search and access their data programmatically.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://ghoclient.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Search for indicators by keyword

• Browse available datasets

• List region and country codes

• get the data as pandas Dataframes

Example usage

For example, to search for health data ona certain topic, like smoking

import ghoclient
ghoclient.index.search('smoking')

The above lines will fetch a Dataframe with all indicators containing the word smoking in their description.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

0.1.0 (2020-06-28)

• First release on PyPI.