Indicators

COINr is an open-source R package for building and analysing composite indicators, developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Here’s something that crops up all the time in indicators, but is discussed less than you might think.

Why use composite indicators? After all, as critics are eager to point out, they are full of subjective decisions and uncertainties, you’re basically adding apples and oranges together, and no one is really sure what the result actually means.

Everyone knows what a bad hair day is. Well, the idea that some days things just don’t work out can be applied to pretty much everything.