Deflator service to convert from nominal to real

[rufuspollock]

deflator.okfnlabs.org

Convert nominal values using GDP, CPI, PPP etc to real terms ...

We have inflation stuff on http://data.okfn.org etc ...

Implementation

• Simple use case written up
  • how much today
  • openspending
  • convert some standard time series
• Acquire and clean data (would be nice to be on data.okfn.org)
• Define API
• Implement

[rufuspollock]

/cc @tryggvib

[rufuspollock]

@gr33ndata let me know if this would be up your street :-)

[trickvi]

@rgrp, sorry for not looking at this ticket until now

OpenSpending uses economics, a python package that can inflate/deflate based on datapackages (only CPI at the moment) on data.okfn.org

[pudo]

@tryggvib whoa this is really cool. Why have I not seen a Labs blog post on this yet ;)

[trickvi]

@pudo you're kind of like the father of this ;) you suggested a package like that one in a comment (although I was not able to see the suggestion you made at the wiki).

...and yeah... I haven't written a Labs blog post, so that's probably the reason ;)

[rufuspollock]

@tryggvib seconding @pudo :-) this is awesome (and I didn't know about it!). Would you be up for writing a short blog post http://okfnlabs.org/blog/add/ :-)?