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With a fast growing population, Africa is confronting its food insecurity challenges in diverse ways as more agriculture tech startups pop up all over the continent. But startups operating in the upstream part of agriculture (core food production) are finding it hard to attract investors. This is a data-driven project undertaken at Columbia University. Analysis was done with Python while visualizations were made with D3 (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and Datawrapper.
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Oil scarcity almost always happens around inflation spikes in the U.S, showing the dependence of the economy on the global energy industry. I scraped the data for this visualization with Beautiful Soup from the website of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. I built this page with HTML and CSS and coded the animated chart with D3 and JavaScript to tell a short story of the last 50 years of America's inflation.
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Wildfire risks are important concerns when buying homes. For prospective homebuyers and realtors, the USDA wildfire risks dataset is a great resource in determining how much risks a homeowner may face in any county. These interactive maps were made and coded using Mapbox, HTML, CSS, Javascript. Analysis done with Python with Altair library for preliminary mapping and analysis.
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World Bank's 2022 Global Gas Flaring data shows that the U.S., one of the top contributors to gas flaring among oil producing nations of the world, reduced its gas flaring by over 3 billion cubic meters in 2021. Coding done with Python, Javascript and HTML, mapping with Mapbox in winkelTripel projection. Other visualizations in Datawrapper and Altair.
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These maps represent the origin and termination points of all Citibike trips in New York City in the month of September 2020 and 2021. The maps on the left are start trips while the ones on the left are end trips
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These interactive maps of US counties' typology and police brutality incidents were fully coded and designed with Mapbox, Javascript, CSS and HTML.
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I coded and developed the two interactive maps on this page with Mapbox and Javascript for a classwork.
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This is a game designed with two other team members as a classwork. We made this with Inky to familiarize with the game designer.
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Not that it is what you spend your day thinking about but have you ever wondered how much water is used for irrigation in the U.S. as the country's agriculture sector faces a water scarcity? It is a whole lot! This viz gives you an idea. Analysis was done with Python, mapping and other viz with Qgis, Datawrapper, ai2html and Adobe Illustrator.
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China's grip on Africa's mineral resources may outweigh US' fear of its increasing geo-politial influence on the continent. With increasing demand for cobalt and nickel in the age of expanding electric cars globally, China is well positioned with access to Africa's reserves. Analysis in Python, visualization with Raw Graphs, Adobe Illustrator and ai2html.
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The recent Brooklyn subway shooting reignites discourse on the safety of users of New York City's transit system. Data shows that arrests for transit crimes are concentrated in Manhattan. Analysis was done with Python, mapping, viz and scrollytelling with Datawrapper, ai2html, Adobe Illustrator, D3 and Raw Graphs
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This class assignment looks at how US-controlled islands have crossed the 80 percent vaccination mark ahead of others affected by higher COVID death rates. The vaccination drive in these islands is aided by absence of the politicization plaguing vaccination in mainland U.S. Analysis with Python, mapping and visualization done with Plotnine(ggplot2) and Datawrapper.
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In this class work, the aim is to analyze and distill a large dataset and visualize the most important information to make it easy for any reader to understand at a glance with the use of scrollytelling. Python was used for analysis. The visualizations were built with D3, Javascript and Raw Graphs.
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Bloomberg did a great story analyzing why situating vaccination sites at dollar stores would expand vaccine access because a lot more people are then able to access those sites faster. I decided to recreate some of the visualizations, on a different state. This required the use QGIS, Openrouteservice API key, Ai2html and Adobe Illustrator.
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Using QGIS, Adobe Illustrator and Google Earth to recreate of one of the maps in this NYT story which shows how residents are fleeing the city of Irpin in Ukraine to the capital, Kyiv.
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Of about 5.4 million immigrant visas approved in the last decade, a quarter went to three Hispanic and Latin American countries alone. The idea for this project came out of curiousity to know which countries have been getting most of U.S. immigrant visas in the last decade and how immigrants from such countries are represented across critical sectors of the economy. I used Python for analysis and Datawrapper for visualization.
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Food prices are increasing every year in Nigeria worsening the food insecurity in a country of at least 200m people. But while supply chain distruptions can be blamed for the price of food increasing globally, there are other peculiar factors at play in Nigeria. I looked into the data to try and find what it reveals. Analysis on the datasets was mostly done with python while mapping and charting was done with QGIS, Plotnine and Datawrapper.
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In this scraping and dataviz class project at the Columbia Journalism School, I used the BBC's 100 Greatest Movies of the 21st Century list to map each country (except US) by director and their ratings to see where the directors of the movies rated by critics in the list come from. This project required BeautifulSoup for multiple scraping, python/pandas for analysis and mapbox for mapping.
BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Thousands of people kidnapped and millions of dollars paid in ransom. This is an inside view of the fight against kidnappping in Nigeria. I was embedded for one month with the police team tracking kidnappers in the country for this documentary produced by the BBC's high-impact documentary unit.
BBC
Ghana produces one-fifth of the world's cocoa, but gets only 2 per cent of the $100bn global chocolate market. I went to the cocoa producing region of Ghana in this TV report for the BBC to find out why and what the country is doing about this. Scripting, camera directing, drone piloting and video editing done by me.
BBC
Young Africans are transitioning to more formal investment clubs. How do these work exactly? At 43 percent, financial inclusion is still low in sub-Saharan Africa despite the recent increase due to mobile money services. This is a BBC TV story in which I explore how Africa's emerging investment clubs work and what impact it is having on the ability of young people to create wealth.
BBC
Ride-hailing business in Africa took off 8 years ago with Uber claiming the biggest market share. With ride-hailing services making up a vital component of the gig economy in Africa, how economically viable is it as a source of livelihood for drivers? This is a TV story for BBC's main Africa business show, Smart Money.
Punch Newspaper, Nigeria
Despite Nigerian government's promise of self-sufficiency in rice production in the country before the end of 2018, the massive smuggling of rice continues to be the industry’s biggest enemy.
Punch Newspaper, Nigeria
A monument to Nigeria's slave history, a well that has been in existence for over 170 years still serves members of the households living withing a compound that once served as a slave holding prison
Punch Newspaper, Nigeria
Underground producers in Nigeria's $91bn bottled water industry are putting the lives of consumers at risk. In this two-part story, I identify the impact of the regulatory failure that makes this possible. This story won the continental Zimeo Awards for urban reporting in 2017. Read the second part of the story here
Punch Newspaper, Nigeria
I have always loved animated visualizations. I did this for the web version of a newspaper feature story I wrote about Nigeria's rice consumption. My aim was to compare Nigeria to another rice producing country - Brazil - in terms of rice production and consumption capacity to. I don't know, you think this makes sense?