mofahad/Biostruct-Africa

Sankey Html # Biostruct-Africa Project Summary This project delivers an interactive visual analytics system to analyze applicant and participant data from BioStruct-Africa’s capacity-building workshops conducted in Mali (2022), Cameroon (2024), and Kenya (2025). The system was designed to support strategic program evaluation by enabling exploration of geographic reach, disciplinary composition, gender distribution, career stages, and workshop-specific demand patterns. Two primary visualization components were implemented: A multi-layer interactive Sankey diagram for categorical flow analysis A geospatial flow map using Kepler.gl to visualize applicant origins and mobility patterns across Africa The project strictly adheres to GDPR constraints, avoids public sharing, and uses only privacy-compliant, aggregated representations. ________________________________________ Data Overview and Governance The core dataset (cleansed_biostruct_data_v4.csv) was provided by the project sponsors after initial discussions, with the following guarantees: Column structure was fixed and stable Dataset size ~200 applicants (170 confirmed, ~20 pending at time of analysis) Primary institutional affiliation removed for GDPR compliance Creative freedom granted for visualization design Important: All data standardization, cleaning, harmonization, and analytical restructuring were performed entirely by the project team, including: Capitalization normalization (e.g., PhD / Phd / phd → PhD Student) Country name correction (e.g., “Egyp” → Egypt) Scientific discipline clustering into meaningful reporting categories Removal of redundant and low-signal attributes ________________________________________ Visualization Architecture Sankey Diagram (Flow Analysis) The Sankey diagram represents applicant flows across four configurable analytical layers. Each layer can be dynamically reassigned using dropdown controls, allowing users to reorder how attributes are compared. Layer Structure Layer 1: Workshop (Kenya …