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About PX-Web API
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PX-Web API use in INSTAT
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About Data Visualization Project
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Future plans

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PxWeb API
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A programmatic way to access px-web database
 GET Request: metadata about databases, levels, tables, contents and variables of a table
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Returns a json format of the metadata
 POST Request: post a query for retrieving data from a table
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Returns a specified format of the filtered table (json, xml, px, csv.)

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GET Request: API/LANGUAGE/DATABASE-
ID/<LEVELS>/TABLE-ID
 http://instat.gov.al:8080/api/al/DST/LSMS/LSMS01
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JSON metadata response
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POST Request: Posting a json formatted request to the above url will return a response with the data filtered according to the posted query.
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User specified format response

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Example resoponse of the GET request “/api/en”
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[{"dbid":"DST","text":"Statistical database"}]
Example response of the GET request “/api/en/DST/ND”
[{"id":"ND0001","type":"t","text":"Constructions by their type- Riconstructions 2004-1 - 2012-4"},
{"id":"ND0002","type":"t","text":"Dwelling by prefecture by prefectures according to construction permits
2005 - 2011"},
{"id":"ND0003","type":"t","text":"Number and square meter of building permits issue for new buildings
2004-1 - 2012-4"},
{"id":"ND0004","type":"t","text":"Dwelling by district according to construction permits 2005 - 2011"},
{"id":"ND0005","type":"t","text":"Value of building permits issued by clients for buildings and civil engineering works 1999 - 2011"},
{"id":"ND0006","type":"t","text":"Approximate value- New constructions 2004-1 - 2012-4"}]

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Example of POST request into the url
"http://instat.gov.al:8080/api/en/DST/OS/DVS/DVS0008/"
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{"query": [{"code": "NivArsim", "selection": {"filter": "all","values":
["*"]}},{"code": "urban_rural", "selection": {"filter": "all","values":
["*"]}},{"code": "Vit", "selection": {"filter": "all", "values": ["*"] }}],"response":
{ "format": "json" }}: response
 {"columns":[{"code":"NivArsim","text":"Level of Education
","type":"d"},{"code":"urban_rural","text":"urban_rural","type":"d"},{"code":"Vit","t ext":"Year","type":"t"},{"code":"Instat1","text":"Women
Percentage","type":"c"}],"comments":[],"data":[{"key":["1","1","2013"],"values":["3.
0"]},{"key":["1","2","2013"],"values":["5.9"]},{"key":["2","1","2013"],"values":["26.
9"]},{"key":["2","2","2013"],"values":["55.0"]},{"key":["3","1","2013"],"values":["46
.9"]},{"key":["3","2","2013"],"values":["33.9"]},{"key":["4","1","2013"],"values":["2
3.2"]},{"key":["4","2","2013"],"values":["5.2"]}]}
4/17/2020

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Programmatic access to our pxweb database
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Internal use for our Data Visualization Project
 Charts and table data are provided from px web database using pxweb api queries
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Users can programmatically access our database for automatic update of figures in their reports
4/17/2020

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Visualization of INSTAT publications

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Visual Studio 2013
SQL Server 2012
ASP.net
.Net Framework 4.5
Entity Framework (Database First Model)
LINQ
JQuery
JQPlot
Pivot js

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Visualization of INSTAT publications (Tables)
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Pivot.js

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Visualization of INSTAT publications (Charts)
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Jqplot

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Visualize main INSTAT publication
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Create a loading application to populate the database
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Extend the use of the API for other purposes
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External users as well