{"id":35742,"date":"2025-10-01T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/what-african-datasets-are-hardest-to-find\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:27:08","slug":"what-african-datasets-are-hardest-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/what-african-datasets-are-hardest-to-find\/","title":{"rendered":"What African Datasets Are Hardest To Find?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hey all,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about how hard it is to get good data on Africa. A lot of things are either behind paywalls, scattered across random sites, or just not collected properly.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious. what kind of datasets would you like to see but can never seem to find?<\/p>\n<p>Could be anything:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>local business\/market info<\/li>\n<li>transport routes<\/li>\n<li>historical or cultural records<\/li>\n<li>climate or environmental data<\/li>\n<li>health, education, housing, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, if you\u2019ve ever thought \u201cwhy is this data so hard to get??\u201d \u2014 I\u2019d love to hear what it was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Exciting_Agency4614\"> \/u\/Exciting_Agency4614 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nv1hkg\/what_african_datasets_are_hardest_to_find\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1nv1hkg\/what_african_datasets_are_hardest_to_find\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-35742 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='35742' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-35742 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-35742 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about how hard it is to get good data on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}