ISSS608 2016 17T3 Group6 Proposal
ISSS608 Project - Group 6
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Overview
As is reported by World Health Organization, more than 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression globally and every 40 seconds someone dies by suicide. Happiness has become a popular research topic in social science. A survey produced for the United Nations polled about 3,000 people in each country and asked them to evaluate their life in 11 categories on a scale from 0 to 10. In the World Happiness Report 2017, Singapore scored 6.572, ranked the happiest country in the Asia-Pacific.
How happy are people today? Were people happier in the past? Among economy, family, health, freedom, corruption and generosity, which factors contributing to happiness scores the most? What are the differences across countries?
Objectives
The main purpose of the project is to visualize the happiness levels across 155+ countries from 2015 to 2017 using R.
The user interface will provide analysis as following:
- World map of happiness score and rank
- Comparison of happiness score by region
- Correlation between each variable
- Main factors contributing to happiness score
- Interactive visualization for a deeper look at countries which users can search for
Data Source
The dataset is extracted from Kaggle, which includes the following variables:
- Country: 155+
- Region: 10
- Happiness Rank:
- Happiness Score:
- Economy: Per capita Gross Domestic Product
- Family:
- Health: Life Expectancy
- Freedom: Freedom to make life choices
- Trust: Government Corruption
- Generosity:
- Dystopia Residual:
