population.ipynb

Kernel: Python 3 (ipykernel)

One Queue or Two

# download modsim.py if necessary

from os.path import basename, exists

def download(url):
    filename = basename(url)
    if not exists(filename):
        from urllib.request import urlretrieve
        local, _ = urlretrieve(url, filename)
        print('Downloaded ' + local)
    
download('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AllenDowney/' +
         'ModSimPy/master/data/World_population_estimates.html')

%load_ext nb_black

import pandas as pd
import requests

# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population.csv?v=1&csvType=filtered&useColumnShortNames=true&time=1700..latest&country=~OWID_WRL", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})

# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=filtered&useColumnShortNames=true&time=1700..latest&country=~OWID_WRL").json()

table2.loc[1950:1980].plot()

Modeling and Simulation in Python

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