bk-advisors/africa-mmr

Interactive barchart showing the maternal mortality rates across africa # africa-mmr Interactive horizontal bar chart of **maternal mortality ratios (MMR per 100,000 live births)** across African countries, using the latest reported year per country from the WHO Global Health Observatory. **Live chart:** bk-advisors.github.io ## Outputs | Asset | Purpose | Path | |-------|---------|------| | Interactive HTML | GitHub Pages landing page (ggiraph tooltips) | index.html | | Portrait PNG (4:5) | LinkedIn image post (3000×3750 @ 300 dpi) | output/africa-mmr.png | | Landscape PNG (1.91:1) | LinkedIn link share (4200×2200 @ 300 dpi) | output/africa-mmr-wide.png | ## Data | Column | Source | Indicator | |--------|--------|-----------| | `mmr`, `low`, `high` | WHO GHO | **MDG_0000000026** — Maternal mortality ratio, modeled, per 100,000 live births | | `country` | WHO GHO country dimension | `DIMENSION/COUNTRY/DimensionValues` | `R/prep_africa_mmr.R` selects the latest year per African country and joins on the country dimension for full names. Raw JSON dumps (`data/who_*_raw.json`) are gitignored — see the header of that script for the curl commands to re-fetch them (R's `fromJSON()` on the URL fails on Windows due to TLS). ## Repo layout ``` interactive-africa-mmr.qmd Quarto source for the interactive chart index.html Rendered self-contained output (served by Pages) _quarto.yml Quarto project config data/africa_mmr.csv Cleaned dataset (country, code, year, mmr, low, high) R/ theme_bka.R BKA-branded ggplot2 theme (local copy) prep_africa_mmr.R Raw WHO JSON -> africa_mmr.csv africa-mmr-linkedin.R Generates the portrait + landscape PNGs audit_figures.R Verifies post claims against the CSV validate_sources.R Cross-checks CSV vs the live WHO API fetch_validation_data.R Caches API responses to .rds for reports output/ Publication-ready PNGs ``` ## Build All commands run from the repo root. ```bash # 1 …