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Update and clarify FERC 2021 data description on Datasette
Describe the bug
When accessing FERC data on Datasette I currently find the descriptions and different FERC data links to be confusing. For example the ferc1
link says:
This database is a concatenation of all the individual annual FERC Form 1 Visual FoxPro databases published from 1994-2021
Is this data actually inclusive of 2021? Shouldn't all the 2021 be in the XBRL data links? Should this ferc1
data be renamed ferc1_1994_2020
or ferc1_dbf
something? I also think the XBRL data (ferc1_xbrl
) could potentially have a more clear description that says how FERC transitioned in 2021 and that the XBRL data is only 2021.
Bug Severity
How badly is this bug affecting you?
- Low: The bug isn't causing me problems, but something's still wrong here.
To Reproduce
Expected behavior
I really only ran into this confusion when trying to send an email explaining how to access the 2021 data.
### In-scope
- [ ] Update description of DBF-based form-1 datasette description
- [ ] Update description of XBRL-based form-1 datasette description
Out-of Scope
- [ ] Change name of
[ferc1](https://data.catalyst.coop/ferc1)
toferc1_dbf
to reflect naming convention of{agency}{form number}_{format}
- [ ] case down and all the uses of
ferc1.sqlite
in pudl