all-time-top-countries

From time to time, Numbeo publishes an index of the highest living standards per country. I was curious about which countries always meet the top of the index.

As Numbeo has no free API to fetch the data, I decided to satisfy my curiosity using web-scrapping tooling and Clojure.

To find the constant top countries we should do the next steps:

• fetch the available periods;
• download the countries' data for each period;
• reduce the raw data to key-value pairs like {218,5 => USA, 220 => UK..};
• sort the result, so highest index countries goes first;
• take the first N countries from the result of the period;
• only then, determine which countries are present in all final result lists;

Used tools:

• Clojure
• Enlive web-scrapping library: https://github.com/cgrand/enlive

How to:

1. Install Clojure
2. git clone https://github.com/Vadym-Lopatka/all-time-top-countries.git
3. cd all-time-top-countries
4. Run: clojure -X:run-x
5. Run with specific top size 15: clojure -X:run-x :top 15

My findings:

1. #{"Denmark" "Switzerland"} - always in top 10
2. #{"Australia" "Japan" "Denmark" "Switzerland" "Germany"} - always in top 15