Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
9-2022
Document Type
Capstone Project
Degree Name
M.S.
Program
Data Analysis & Visualization
Advisor
Timothy Shortell
Keywords
Happiness, Report, Machine Learning, Policy changes, Statistical model, visualization
Abstract
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network publishes the World Happiness Report. It started with the UN General Assembly's resolution in 2011, adopting a holistic definition of development and encouraging the member countries to measure their people's happiness. The report ranks the countries based on a Happiness Index. This index rates countries' happiness on a scale from 0 to 10. The scores are based on answers to the main life evaluation question asked in the poll. The World Happiness Report recognizes certain key factors that likely explain the variance in happiness. However, none of these factors are comprehensive or exhaustive. These factors do not measure individual satisfaction. This Capstone Project intends to explore the factors that increase and decrease the quality of life and an individual's well-being. This project uses machine learning algorithms and data visualizations to explore how these factors correlate to the happiness index. The code repository is available at the following GitHub site: https://github.com/dassuparna/Capstone-Project
Recommended Citation
Das, Suparna, "Happiness From a Different Perspective" (2022). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5040
Software codes in the jupyter notebook containing the machine learning algorithms
2019.csv (8 kB)
This input data file is from World Happiness data (year 2019)
EducationData.csv (2 kB)
The input data file containing the list of countries with the education score
gender_development.csv (4 kB)
The input data file containing the Gender Development score of the listed countries
Living standards.csv (3 kB)
The input data file containing the living standard rank of the listed countries
Pol Stab.csv (4 kB)
The input data file containing the political ranking of the listed countries
relig_iso.csv (2 kB)
The input data file containing the religion ranking of the listed countries
Time-Spent-On-Leisure.xlsx (11 kB)
The input data file containing the time spent on different activities by the population of the listed countries