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    This document summarizes an analysis of global happiness using data from the World Happiness Report from 2015-2017. It examines which regions and countries are happiest and whether factors like GDP, health, freedom, and lack of corruption influence happiness scores. The analysis includes a choropleth map showing happiness scores by country and a scatterplot comparing GDP per capita to happiness scores. Color was carefully chosen to clearly convey differences in the visualizations. The visualizations provide an overview of general trends in factors that affect global happiness.

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    This document summarizes an analysis of global happiness using data from the World Happiness Report from 2015-2017. It examines which regions and countries are happiest and whether factors like GDP, health, freedom, and lack of corruption influence happiness scores. The analysis includes a choropleth map showing happiness scores by country and a scatterplot comparing GDP per capita to happiness scores. Color was carefully chosen to clearly convey differences in the visualizations. The visualizations provide an overview of general trends in factors that affect global happiness.

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    This document summarizes an analysis of global happiness using data from the World Happiness Report from 2015-2017. It examines which regions and countries are happiest and whether factors like GDP, health, freedom, and lack of corruption influence happiness scores. The analysis includes a choropleth map showing happiness scores by country and a scatterplot comparing GDP per capita to happiness scores. Color was carefully chosen to clearly convey differences in the visualizations. The visualizations provide an overview of general trends in factors that affect global happiness.

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    An Analysis of Happiness:

    It’s hard to understand what contributes to overall happiness since it’s a huge multivariate
    problem with different variables for different people. The World Happiness Report is a
    global survey of global happiness, conducted/measured by leading experts. Each surveyed
    countries is given a happiness score, which is calculated using parameters – GDP per capita,
    family, health (life expectancy), freedom, generosity, trust (absence of government
    corruption), and dystopia residual. This survey was done from 2015-2017.

    Before I dived into the data and the visualizations, I had a few questions that I wanted to
    discover through this dataset. Which region in the world is the happiest? Is happiness
    correlated to economic development or GDP per capita? In such a politically chaotic and
    divisive period globally, is government trust an important factor to global happiness? Which
    variables are the strongest indicators of happiness and vice versa?

    I put two charts in the dashboard, a choropleth map and a scatterplot. I chose a choropleth
    map because I’m dealing with different countries in the world with continuous data. I used a
    scatterplot because I had two continuous variables for which I wanted to show a
    correlation, or lack thereof.

    I labelled all the axes for the scatterplot with the appropriate variable names. For the GDP
    per capita variable, the dataset did not clearly explain the values for the variable but only
    said the extent to which GDP per capita affected happiness score, so I was unable to put
    anything more specific than GDP per capita. For the legend for the choropleth map, I put the
    corresponding color gradient with its associated continuous values.

    I paid meticulous attention to the color palette to make sure that it can conveys as much
    visual cues as possible. For the choropleth map, since I’m illustrating differences between
    continuous data of different countries, I ensured that I used differences in saturation to
    differentiate continuous values for different countries. For the scatterplot, I used one hue
    for the scatterplot while using a completely different hue for the trend line in order to make
    it visually perceptible and distinguishable.

    I think the data was shown in the context of an overview. While I had specific questions that
    I wanted to answer using data visualization, and I think these visualizations do reveal some
    answers to my question, but I think that it still does demonstrate great overview of the data.
    Anyone unfamiliar with the data can go through all the charts and see general macro trends
    as well as micro trends. The choropleth map and the scatterplot show overall macro trends
    in generally, and the user can discover further macro and micro trends by going through
    data points in both charts.

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