Happiness

The world is full of happy people from one stretch of the globe to the other. Yet some countries have a higher concentration of joy than others. But what’s the secret to these happy countries? The Happy Planet Index (HPI) measures the sustainable well-being of 151 countries across the globe, focusing not on their abilities…

Gender Equality

In order to visualize what gender equality and gender inequality looks like globally, Speros Kokenes, the developer of this application, decided to compile and incorporate World Development Indicators collected, provided, and made publicly available by the World Bank Group, a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. This group has…

FEMA Disaster Analysis

FEMA Disaster Declarations Summary is a summarized dataset describing all federally declared disasters. This information begins with the first disaster declaration in 1953 and features all three disaster declaration types: major disaster, emergency and fire management assistance. The dataset includes declared recovery programs and geographic areas (county not available before 1964; Fire Management records are…