visualizedata/undp-inequality

United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA) Inequality Project Partnership ## Press: Parsons School of Design partners with UNDP Africa The New York-based school will provide data visualization tools for the Regional Bureau’s upcoming report on economic inequality in Africa # THE NEW SCHOOL: DATA VISUALIZATION—UNDP RBA Inequality Project Partnership Partnering with the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Africa, Parsons Data Visualization students investigate inequality interactions in Sub-Saharan Africa. #### RILEY HOONAN ### The Impact of Violence & Revolution on Inequality in Africa This chart examines the relationship between political violence, revolution events, and income inequality, per country, over the last forty years, to further examine the causes and outcomes of those connected histories. [video mp4 | ogg] #### ASEEM AGARWAL ### How does Conflict affect Inequality in Africa? Countries in Africa have gone through a number of conflicts since their independence from colonial rule. Violence due to conflicts not only results in deaths and destruction of property, but a greater collateral damage sometimes leading to a complete breakdown of society. With this visualization, we try to understand different drivers of societal inequality due to conflict violence. [video mp4 | ogg] ### Causes and impacts of conflicts in Africa: What have Scholars researched? With this project I try to understand what kind of research academic scholars have carried out around conflicts in Africa, specifically related to its impact and cause. For this, I analyze the top 1000 search results from Google Academic Scholar for each year between 1970-2016. Each search result's headline is analyzed to understand its focus, which is ultimately aggregated with all other results to find a larger focus over a time period. [video mp4 | ogg] #### SAMBHAV JAIN ### The African Education Funnel: A Comparison of Enrollment Rates Across Different Levels of Education, and its Relationship to Inequality Over the past decade, the p …