Expenditure on Research and Development(R&D) by countries with indicators such as source of funds, type of R%&D activity, fields of R&D(medical and health sciences) since 1996. ## Data Data comes from UNESCO institute for statistics http://data.uis.unesco.org It consists of useful information about how much is spent by government/the private sectors, type of activites like Basic research, Applied research, Experimental development for specific countries. Also, we added spendings for Medical and health sciences. ## Preparation The main resource is located in `archive/gerd.csv` There are several steps have been done to get final data. * Extracted separately each resource by source of funds "Business enterprise", "Government" and "Higher Education", "Private non-profit", "Rest of the world", "Not specified source" * Extracted separately each resource by type of activities "Basic research", "Applied research", "Experimental development", "Not specified activities" * Extracted by field of R&D "Medical and health sciences" * Merged them into one resource `data/medical.csv` using `pandas` library. Process is recorded and automated in python script: ``` # to get final merged data which is `data/expenditure.csv`, run the following script scripts/process.py ``` ## License Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)