Weekly Viz 2020-03-16

Happiness and Life Satisfaction

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

Makeover Monday 20200316

This week we are looking at the relationship between GDP per capita and life satisfaction. This is a survey conducted by the World Bank, and the info can be found in this article. It is a pretty comprehensive article that looked at many different factors to happniess and how they correlate with tha self-reported ‘life satisfaction’ as a measure of hapiness.

My Visualization

To answer the question of ‘does higher GDP guarantee a higher life satisfaction’, I am comparing the ranking of GDP per capita and life satisfaction among the countries. You can also select a certain region on the top.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• This is a positive correlation between GDP per capita and life satisfaction;
• However, as you would imagine, there are a lot of other factors impacting life satisfaction, thus not a perfect 100% correlation observed;
• For example, in the region south/Latin America, the country Nicaragua is the third poorest country and meanwhile the third happiest country…

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