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How to make a suitability map for an online English class part 2

How to make a suitability map for an online English class part 2

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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How to make a suitability map for an online English class part 1

How to make a suitability map for an online English class part 1

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 QGIS?

What is QGIS?

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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Boiled egg

Boiled egg

How hot did it get today? Do you like this weather?Why don’t people come out? Where have you sat for hours? I can wash my clothes in the sink before I go to work.The sun is hot and the air is dry. I don’t need a drier; the clothes will be dry.It was 93 F today, and next week it will be 100 F. People don’t come out for food trucks in this heat. We sat there all day.How many…

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Moving forward

Moving forward

Are you patient? It took me a long time to _.Do you change a lot or stay the same? A snail looks stopped, but it is still moving.You need to slow down to see it. There’s someone waiting at the bus stop.His 2 eyes see to one side. He slowly knows where to go.But the way forward is not clear.

Small steps

Small steps

Have you changed a lot since you were a kid?What is something that you do everyday? Small steps can go a long distance.The apples are a little bigger each time I pass by.The ants are doing lots of work, but a little at a time.All you need is to be consistent.

Flip phone life

Flip phone life

What don’t I have? Why is it a hindrance to employment? How does it affect what I experience everyday?Why did I quit my toilet-cleaning job? Should I get a car? Have you ever quit a job? Why? I like not having a car. I like bicycling everywhere. But it is a hindrance to employment. Same with not having a smartphone.Just not having a smartphone and a car, it determines where I will go and what I can do and a…

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Things Around Me Now

Things Around Me Now

I’m surprised at what my life is like now. The things around me that I didn’t expect to have.Takako-san was trying to take a picture of the moon. The moon rising over the mountains appeared very large. I showed her how to zoom the camera.In the morning I am walking down a side-street. I see a garden in someone’s yard. The fruit tree was in the center of many purple flowers.Around my life now I see some good things that…

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Weird animal

Weird animal

Did you see any animals today?My heart was pounding in my chest after __. If you see a weird animal, just keep calm.It’s probably more scared of you than you are of it.The shadows are almost still, barely moving.Don’t be scared. You’re a weird animal too.

Hailstones

Hailstones

I wish I had a million __. an accident is when ___. March weather is waking me up from my sleep.The hailstones hitting my head are clearing up my brain.The time is hanging on the wall, counting my mistakes.My hat can go in the trash.