Introduction

We chose to analyze data and variables that could provide insight into the relationships between economic and sociological contexts in relation to CO2 emission production globally. Each variable that we want to investigate was originally in a separate csv. We merged these to create the data frame “Global Factors” which includes every country globally, population growth per country, share of CO2 between all countries, GDP per person (in each country), high technology exports per country, and CO2 emitted per person (in each country). We are analyzing each of these variables and their relationships for the year 2014. This will provide us with interesting insight into what influences modern CO2 emissions globally and where there may be leverage to make changes in order to mitigate climate change.

There is a linear looking relationship between GDP per person and CO2 per person globally, and a somewhat linear relationship between GDP and Technology Exports. This suggests that there is a correlation between these variables. We can further investigate this relationship using linear regreesion.

This boxplot shows the growth factor for 2014 by region.