The World Bank is an international organization that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. The World Bank provides data indicators and other data about countries around the world. There are about 8,000 indicators that can be accessed in the World Bank database. We will use this data to do some analytics/charting.
The World Bank data can be accessed via a type provider available specifically for the World Bank in the FSharp.Data
library (this is available via NuGet, a repository for .NET libraries). We will then use the FSharp.Charting
library to visualize the data in a chart and see some indicators.
Note
NuGet libraries can be accessed either by the NuGet tool itself (https://www.nuget.org/) or Paket, another package manager with very good integration and the most used F# development tools (https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/).