gyetman/mahrv

Code for estimating population in Mangrove villages in West Africa # MAHRV The code in this repository is for estimating population in Mangrove villages in West Africa and was developed under the project "Estimating and mapping populations in off-grid and hard-to-reach places". The code uses crowd-sourced village population data along with other population covariates. Two models were used for the estimation: a linear model and Random Forest regression tree. You can view the Jupyter Notebooks by clicking on the appropriate files directly in GitHub: Linear Model v2.ipynb and Random Forest SLE.ipynb. The results are visualized as a map in a public viewer. The project is described at: mahrv.ciesin.columbia.edu The MaHRV portal also allows to contribute data and obtain information about the villages. The models will be regularly updated as more village data become available.