Carleton University - School of Computer Science Honours Project
Winter 2022
Visualization of the effects of Government Covid-19 policies on Economic Indicators and major sectors around the world
Oluwademilade Akapo
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ABSTRACT
The objective of this Honors project was to conduct research on the effects that various world governments pandemic policies had on their economies. To do this I gathered data from many websites relating to government policy strictness and economic state of various countries, analyzed the trends in the data and created Choropleth maps and Bubble plot visualizations to effectively display the results then finally that hosted everything on a react.js based website. Two of the Choropleth maps came out as expected and showed that between 2019 and 2020 economic indicators such as GDP growth became extremely low for many countries around the world. Contrastingly the bubble plots showed a mix of trends when looking at average stringency compared to percentage change is value of economic sector. Both export plots showed a negative correlation which links up with expectation while, tourism revenue gave a positive correlation. This was going against expectation and could be because the amount of data chosen for these visualizations was too small and not diverse enough. Future extensions to the project will have me adding more datasets to the Bubble plots and more categories to broaden the visualization and give better trends.