Ianssmith/UNDP_DataScience

Research on Economic Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa for the UNDP ### Is the Rapid Growth of Urban African Cities a Sign of Prosperity or Imbalance? This research, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, aims to delve deeper and uncover fact based insights into the topic of economic inequality in urban centers of Sub-Saharan Africa. >Studying power grid infrastructure and agriculture in order to find out who/why/how it is that there are regions without access to electricity and who/why/how Africa imports food. Doing so in order to understand how/why/what governments are spending money on if not this. Considering/comparing/using financial and economic variables such as government debt and expenditure. My visualization is based on WorldBank world development indicators data. ___ #### Contents: ##### Code section 1. qualData: Contains application code for NLP exploratory research and application. 2. quantData: Contains code for data wrangling and aggregation, initial exploratory quantitative analysis, and application code for prototype application 3. quant2: Contains code for final presentation application, and analytical code for further exploration and hypothesis testing. (.csv, .txt files are data sources) (.py, .ipynb, and .awk files are data aggregation and exploration code) (.js, .html, and .css files are application code files) ##### Research and Report Section 1. Initial research 2. Breadth research 3. Depth research 4. Formulate question 5. Test question 6. Results #### (Images link to live visualization app) ___ ### Stage 1. #### "Key Issues Report" whitepaper, identify topic, consult with UNDP project lead The entry point into our research was via the "Overview of Key Issues Report" provided to us by the UNDP. We read the paper consulted the referenced data and research sources, and formulated topical questions (See "Questions" section below) to pose to the director of the department to flesh out potential avenues of research. Researching historical instances of economically and financially …