SIDS-Focused Analysis of the Results from ‘Monitoring global development aid with machine learning’

The data source of this work is the results from the paper Monitoring global development aid with machine learning specifically sourced from their Github

Goal of this work

Visualize more granular descriptions of aid than the 17 SDG’s for Small Island Develping States (SIDS)

• How much aid is each SIDS receiving?:

  • For which sectors? (31 total)

• For SIDS as a whole, what proportion of the overall aid goes to each of the specific topics? (171 total)

  • It is important to note that the 171 topics are generated by an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, therefore, the results of the algorithm will have some error. Please reference the paper linked above for more info

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Below, we visualize total disbursements of aid by sector for each SIDS.

• Hovering the cursor over a section of a bar will display the disbursement and sector for that section. You may also click the boxes of each sector to isolate them and zoom in on SIDS of interest.

Next, we have a heat-map of the distribution of aid by sector. Each row represents a SIDS total aid, with each column representing the proportion of the SIDS total aid going to that sector.

Darker colors indicate a higher percentage; for example, over 70% of the aid Bahrain recieves is for Education, indicated by the dark red tile on the lower left side of the map. Overall, it seems that aid is mostly distributed evenly across sectors with some interesting outliers

• Hovering the cursor over a given tile will display the sector, SIDS, and percentage distribution - expressed as a decimal - for that tile.

For perspective, this is the global breakdown of aid distribution by Sector and Topic. The innrer ring represents sectors (31 possible total) and outer represents sectors(171 possible total)

• Hovering the cursor over a section of the chart will display the proportion expressed as a percentage, along with labels in the upper left that indicate the relative topic and/or sector.

• Global Aid Distribution

• $2,759,569,352,983

sum(topic_sector_sunburst_merged_all$sum_disbursement)

## [1] 2759569352983

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sum(topic_sector_sunburst_merged$sum_disbursement)

## [1] 79391073760

Total Aid Distribution for all SIDS - $79,391,073,760

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Lastly, we have three different sunbursts that illustrate aid distribution by region. From left to right; the Caribbean region, the Pacific region, and the Atlantic/Indian Ocean/South China Sea region. Compare these charts with the original sunburst to better understand how the funding is disbursed regionally.

• Caribbean Aid Distribution Total
  • $44,691,703,523
• Pacific Aid Distribution Total
  • $25,805,992,360
• AIS Aid Distribution Total
  • $11,003,704,762

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Explore each SIDS aid distribution

Explore the distribution of aid by sector and topic for each SIDS

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Explore aid distribution over time for each SIDS

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Topic Disbursement over time

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