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Create Your Own Color Palette Function in R

Learn to make custom functions for ggplot() and other charting tools.

6 min readDec 20, 2022

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Create Your Own Color Palette Function in R

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Data Visualization for Economics using WDI package in R

Create quick charts for economics and development for multiple indicators at once.

6 min readSep 13, 2022

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Data Visualization for Economics using WDI package in R

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Scrape Data Online using Python libraries

This walkthrough will go over the libraries, Beautiful Soup and Requests, to scrape data online.

5 min readDec 10, 2022

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Scrape Data Online using Python libraries

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Beyond Averages: 3 Ways to Measure Inequality

Learn about the Gini Index, Datt-Ravallion, FGT, what they represent and how they’re calculated.

7 min readAug 10, 2022

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Beyond Averages: 3 Ways to Measure Inequality

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Beyond Headcounts: Calculating Inequality with FGTs

An intro to inequality-based stats and how to calculate them in poverty discussions

5 min readJul 23, 2022

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Beyond Headcounts: Calculating Inequality with FGTs

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Combining Geospatial Data with R and sf

This walkthrough uses R to replicate Dorothea Woods (World Pop, University of Southampton)’s piece on mapping Women’s Access to Health in…

4 min readJun 22, 2022

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A map of travel times (minutes) to the closest hospital, overlaid by coordinates of health facilities.

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How to Map Population Density using WorldPop and R

Population density can give us a sense of how concentrated an area is. When combined with data like number of hospitals, paved roads, or…

4 min readJun 8, 2022

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Population density map for Djibouti. Data from World Pop.

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Yi Ning Wong

Yi Ning Wong

I write about data in development. I want to make analysis more user-friendly to expand data use for good. Currently at World Bank Education. Views are my own.

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