Codes and Data – Data Zoom Amazônia

Data Zoom Amazônia developed the datazoom.amazonia package in the R statistical program for the extraction and cleaning of data directly from its original sources. It allows access to various databases related to the Brazilian Amazon, always seeking to facilitate users’ lives and streamline research processes. The package adopts the philosophy of open source in such a way that everyone can learn and contribute to the development of the project.

Enter our github

Download the documentation (.PDF)

Stories Behind the Codes

Stories

How has Brazilian livestock productivity changed over time?

See how production has become more intensive over the years.

30 de March de 20233 de September de 2023

Stories

What is the relationship between cattle herd and GDP per capita?

See how the evolution of cattle herd over the years is associated with the evolution of GDP per capita for each municipality in the Legal Amazon.

24 de January de 202326 de March de 2023

Stories

Municipalities with the highest Social Progress Index

Explore in detail in the interactive map the index elaborated by IMAZON regarding all municipalities in the Legal Amazon.

24 de January de 202326 de March de 2023

The Data Zoom Amazônia project was developed by the Department of Economics at PUC-Rio with the aim of providing free access to databases on the Legal Amazon. Data Zoom Amazônia aims to facilitate and speed up academic research on the region with the creation of the package datazoom.amazonia on R. Through an approach focused on simplicity and organization, users will not need to dedicate their time to database preparation.

INSTALLATION ON R

You can install the released version of CRAN‘s datazoom.amazonia by typing directly into your R console:

install.packages("datazoom.amazonia")

Alternatively, you can install the development version from GitHub. You need to install the devtools package and then run in the console to R:

devtools::install_github("datazoompuc/datazoom.amazonia")