Gapminder Website

Data

• Data downloaded straight from the Gapminder website
• Compiled data from Gapminder World, World Bank, and some manually compiled
• Life Expectancy, Child Mortality, Population, Babies per Woman

What We Were Working With

Research Question

Can we manipulate the data and visualizations such that a user could view these factors in a customizable manner where they can choose which countries and how to visualize this data?

High-Level Goal

We wanted to:
- show the data on the gapminder website, but in a different way
- create a shiny app that would allow users to pick the visualization that they best understood
- allow for between group and within group comparison
- add our own plots that could add to understanding the data and comparison

Some Limitations

• animations take a really long time to render in shiny, so users are limited by the speed of their computers to see that visualization
  
• some countries do not have data and do not show up on the visualizations
  
• some countries have data for certain years but not others

Conclusions

• Created a shiny application that allows users to visualize population, fertility, life expectancy, and mortality in a customizable manner
  
• Life expectancy and population has increased, fertility and mortality have decreased.
  
• We were able to see drops in life expectency during disasters such as World War II and the Spanish flu pandemic.