World Refugee Migration
The Team Members and Their Roles
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Team Lead - Donna Dietrich
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Scrum Master - Erdem Balikci
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Data Engineer - Matt McLaughlin
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Tester - Ian Womack
Topic and Focus
Every year, hundreds of thousands of individuals flee their countries as refugees. We will be creating and interactive visualization showing where these refugees flee from, the country they settle in, the armed conflicts potentially sparking these migrations, and the potential impact to the countries receiving these individuals.
Data Sources
We will be focusing on data 1990 - present. Refugee population by country or territory of origin: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.REFG.OR Refugee population by country or territory of asylum: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.REFG Battle related Deaths(number of people): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.BTL.DETH Population: All Countries and Economies: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL GDP (US$): All countries and Economies: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
Visualizations Included
Plot chart, pie chart, and bar chart illustrating the number of asylum seekers, refugees, and battles deaths in each country between 1990-2016. Multilayer Leaflet map with animation to refugee movement and battle death data over time Dropdown table listing country statistics
Inspiration
http://media.diercke.net/omeda/501/100790_195_3.jpg https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/styles/attachment-large/public/resources-pdf-previews/420151-WesternBalkans_DailyMap_3092015_v2.png?itok=t-qW6LAP https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/images/2016/05/blogs/graphic-detail/20160528_srm976.png
Github Repo
Our primary working repository will be stored here: https://github.com/mrbalikci/project-2