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Analyzing the Effect of Expression and Information Factor on Economic Freedom Regarding Human Freedom Index

According to Human Freedom Index, freedom of Expression and Information is evaluated under personal freedom category. This course project attempts to prove the direct relationship between freedom of expression and information and overall economic freedom.

Guidelines

For the course project, you will pick a real-world dataset of your choice and apply the concepts learned in this course to perform exploratory data analysis. Focus on documentation and presentation - the Jupyter notebook will also serve as a project report, so make sure to include detailed explanations wherever possible using Markdown cells.

Step 1: Select a real-world dataset

Find and download an interesting real-world dataset (see the Recommended Datasets section below for ideas).

The dataset should contain tabular data (rowsn & columns), preferably in CSV/JSON/XLS or other formats that can be read using Pandas. If it’s not in a compatible format, you may have to write some code to convert it to a desired format.

The dataset should contain at least 3 columns and 150 rows of data. You can also combine data from multiple sources to create a large enough dataset.

Step 2: Perform data preparation & cleaning

Load the dataset into a data frame using Pandas
Explore the number of rows & columns, ranges of values etc.
Handle missing, incorrect and invalid data
Perform any additional steps (parsing dates, creating additional columns, merging multiple dataset etc.)

Step 3: Perform exploratory Analysis & Visualization

Compute the mean, sum, range and other interesting statistics for numeric columns
Explore distributions of numeric columns using histograms etc.
Explore relationship between columns using scatter plots, bar charts etc.
Make a note of interesting insights from the exploratory analysis

Step 4: Ask & answer questions about the data

Ask at least 5 interesting questions about your dataset
Answer the questions either by computing the results using Numpy/Pandas or by plotting graphs using Matplotlib/Seaborn
Create new columns, merge multiple dataset and perform grouping/aggregation wherever necessary
Wherever you’re using a library function from Pandas/Numpy/Matplotlib etc. explain briefly what it does

Step 5: Summarize your inferences & write a conclusion

Write a summary of what you’ve learned from the analysis
Include interesting insights and graphs from previous sections
Share ideas for future work on the same topic using other relevant datasets
Share links to resources you found useful during your analysis

Step 6: Make a submission & share your work
Upload your notebook to your Jovian.ml profile using jovian.commit.

Make a submission here: https://jovian.ml/learn/data-analysis-with-python-zero-to-pandas/assignment/course-project 58

Share your work on the forum: Course Project on Exploratory Data Analysis - Discuss and Share Your Work

Browse through projects shared by other participants and give feedback

(Optional) Step 7: Write a blog post
A blog post is a great way to present and showcase your work.
Sign up on Medium.com 1 to write a blog post for your project.
Copy over the explanations from your Jupyter notebook into your blog post, and embed code cells & outputs 1
Check out the Jovian.ml Medium publication for inspiration: https://medium.com/jovianml ***

                                    MEANING OF COLUMNS

PERSONAL FREEDOM

Rule of Law:

Procedural Justice
Civil Justice
Criminal Justice

Security and Safety:

Homicide
Disappearance, Conflict, Terrorism
Women's Security, Safety

Movement:

Freedom of Domestic Movement
Freedom of Foreign Movement
Women’s Freedom of Movement

Religious Freedom:

Freedom to Establish Religious Org.
Harassment and Physical Hostilities
Legal and Regulatory Regulatory Costs

Assoc., Assembly, and Civil Soc. :

Freedom of Association
Assembly and Demonstration
Est. & Operate Political Parties
Est. & Operate Professional Org.
Est. & Operate Edu., Sports, and Cultural

Expression and Information:

Press Killed
Press Jailed
Laws and Reg. That Influence Media
Political Pressure, Control Media
Access to Cable and Satellite
Freedom of Access to Frgn. Info.
State Control over Internet Access

Identity and Relationships:

Legal Gender
Same-Sex Relationships
Divorce