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Group 1: Study of World Development Indicator |
Gender Studies: A web-based analytics application for visualizing World Development Indicators As countries start to develop, more attention on Social Economic factors begin to be discusses in greater detail. In fact, the discussion of Social Economics may be deemed as a privilege of Developed countries, as developing countries continue to battle more fundamental economic factors like Gross Domestic Product, Population Growth, Education and so on. Social Economics, as defined, is the study of social phenomenons that make up the society at large. These include topics of discussions, a few of which are listed below: Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Rights Racial Discrimination Feminism and Women Equality Freedom Religious/Personal practice For our project, we would be focusing on Feminism and Women Equality. in line with the topic, there are many controversial topics of discussions. Such include the Gender Pay Gap, the Patriarchy, Abortion (Women's health care rights), etc, with the liberal impression that Women in developed countries are still suppressed into sub-leading roles, and that society is inherently "male" dominant. Our group hopes to dispel this theory with factual statistics, and as such, change the mindsets of women to "break" out of the "self-victimization" mentality, which has been recognized by groups of Conservative Physiologist as the stumbling block to Gender equality and progression. |
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Environmental Criminology: The Missing "W" in Whodunnit Environmental Criminology, an approach first developed in the 1980s, involves the study of geospatial and contextual elements in relation to crime. These elements could involve aspects such as victim movement, and spatial-temporal patterns in the occurrence of crimes. Through the exploration of a crime record dataset provided by the Los Angeles Poice Department (LAPD), this project aims to provide a layman's view of criminology through the lens of geospatial-themed and statistical visual analytics. <motivation> <features> |
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Ever wonder how far bitcoin value could go? Bitcoin has recently garnered mixed reviews from two extreme ends. From China banning bitcoin to Chicago Mercantile Exchange supporting the futures trading of bitcoin. And there are plenty more views from big investment banks as well as regulators. All these recent excitement is due to bitcoin’s value rising more than 700% since the start of January 2017.
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How civil aviation contributes to the “Belt and Road” initiative? The Belt and Road (B&R) refers to the land-based "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the seagoing "21st Century Maritime Silk Road". The routes cover more than 60 countries and regions from Asia to Europe via Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and the Middle East. The B&R countries currently accounting for around 31% of global GDP and more than 34% of the world's merchandise trade. Unveiled in 2013, the strategy underlines China's push to take a larger role in global affairs with a China-centered trading network. The Belt and Road initiative is set to reinvigorate the seamless flow of capital, goods and services between Asia and the rest of the world, by promoting further market integration and forging new ties among communities.
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Use the air quality indicators to save us On Nov 4th, Beijing Environmental Protection Agency released the news, owing to the adverse weather conditions and early winter heating as well as other factors, it is expected that there will be a continuous 4-day regional heavily polluted air quality in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas on November 4th, in addition, the air quality in some cities may reach serious pollution level….
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Singapore CPI Index: A Detalied Data Analysis The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an economic measure that reflects the prices of consumer goods and services a country's citizens consume for day to day living. Understanding it gives a clear overview of how the country’s standard of living is and its short-term forecasts can have deep ramifications. It is often used for tuning Governmental policies to steer inflation rates in Singapore, for potential migrants to assess the country’s living patterns, and for foreign investors to consider allocating potential investment funds into the country. However, to merely glance at the present CPI values provide limited information and its real value lies in its forecast. Given the myriad possibilities of how the market forces work, the CPI can be difficult to predict, especially in the long term. Analysts who are interested in the country’s growth and outlook would need to apply many variations of parameters to find the forecast that is nearest to its future realization. To tackle this difficulty, we propose to create an easy-to-use system that is assessible even to the uninitiated analyst. The system should allow exploratory functions to decompose the CPI time series data to its constituent parts, namely Seasonality, Trend, and Random (Noise). It should also generate several potential forecasting models (such as Exponential Smoothing and ARIMA) to predict the CPI using a combination of predetermined parameters and grid search optimization. The system will be programmed using the R Shiny package, and several useful supportive packages such as: Lubridate and Timetk (for date-time data manipulation), Forecast and Sweep (for easy forecasting), and ggplot2 (for amazing time-series visualizations). To extend our system further, we also allow other forms of time series data to be displayed and their forecasts compared using the given forecasting methods. Other example time-series data sources that are supported could include Singapore import/export prices, currency exchange rate information with other countries, and even Singapore Certificate-of-Entitlement (COE) price changes. |
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China property analysis The real-estate market is ever growing and has more stakeholders. We are here to build an app that makes an analysis of the housing prices market an easy and effective one by just a few clicks and hovering around. This way allowing the major stakeholders perform their analysis and plan their decisions more efficiently. We have used various packages such as'Recharts','Timekt','Sweep','ggplot2' that allowed users to model and visualize the housing prices indexes in different ways for different purposes. Time Series Analysis-The application will allow the user to choose the City they are interested in and the time period they want to look at. The trend of the prices during that period will be provided.This is built for analysts and agents and government officials who would like to know on the performance at a certain period of time and also a comparative study between different cities. This way they can find any outliers or a particular pattern in the indices. The time series is related to the economic policy and the effect is stressed based on the chosen policy time period. Cluster Analysis – We further develop some clusters of the cities based on their housing index reaction. This way we can group the cities whose housing market behave/ respond to the market in a similar way. The government officials and the local agents understand the markets better and plan their policies better. A waiver or cluster development centric policy can be made by the government. Forcast Analysis: Forecast analysis is done using Geofacet that we can compare the forecasted prices between the different region of the country. Geofaceting arranges a sequence of plots of data for different geographical entities into a grid that strives to preserve some of the original geographical orientation of the entities. This app can be applied to any other economic variable in China. This will be greatly helpful for economists, agents and government officials to look into the specific data and make some judgments and decisions based on it. |
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Cross Shareholding Cross shareholding is a situation in which a corporation owns stock in another company. So, technically, corporations own securities issued by other corporations. Cross shareholding can lead to double counting, whereby the equity of each company is counted twice when determining value. When double counting occurs, the security's value is counted twice, which can result in estimating the wrong value of the two companies. Cross shareholding is very common in corporate world. Sometimes, there can be more than 10 companies involved and it is very difficult for investors and regulators to track who owns how much. In this project, our group choose 1 or 2 big groups of companies from Korea and China with heavy cross shareholding between each other and conduct visualization and relationship analysis on their networks using R-Shiny so that people can have better picture of these companies’ network and easier to understand relationship between companies. |
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