Lessonslides

Select countries in orange were selected based on BOTH being a designated developing or emerging economy AND having a mobile phone subscription rate of 95 or more per 100 people. The green dots on show places in the selected countries with more than 725,000 people. When I filter the minimum population for just mid-sized cities of 533950 – 701680 people, it returns 55 cities in 25 countries. city country Min Population Oran Algeria 798000 Mar del Plata Argentina 555897 Rajshahi…

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In the next couple posts (part 1 and part 2), I’ll show you how I made the suitability map for this online English class. Data is everywhere. You can download it from free sources, or you can create your own data. For this project, I will download data. I went to worldbank data website and browsed various datasets for economy, infrastructure, demographics, education. Here is a chart I made to show internet users (%) by country. How can data be…

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What is a statistical indicator? A statistical indicator is the representation of statistical data for a specified time, place or any other relevant characteristic, corrected for at least one dimension (usually size) so as to allow for meaningful comparisons. (definition from this glossary). Statistical indicators allow us to compare countries by certain characteristics. I would like to understand what characteristics of Vietnam make it good for an online English class, and what other countries are similar to Vietnam in those ways. That…

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