Happiness Factors Comparison by Country
This interactive scatterplot compares happiness factors across countries, allowing users to explore relationships between metrics like GDP per capita, school years, and government effectiveness. A dropdown menu selects the x- and y-axis variables, while a clickable color legend filters data points by indicator type. Built with D3 v4, the visualization uses SVG circles with animated transitions, tooltips for country details, and scales from d3-scale to render the data from the World Happiness Report.
AI-generated descriptionThe data is from the The World Happiness Report that uses survey data, demographic information and statistical analysis to rank 156 nations according to the happiness of their people. https://www.kaggle.com/arielyeung/world-happiness-data https://gist.github.com/mkt-ds/640984c80835e2823c1b0f5c9a3fabe6
A country’s overall happiness score is a composite of different factors collected in an annual worldwide survey, including GDP per capita School years Sustainable economic development Employement Rate Health expenditure Government effectiveness Female MPS Control of corruption
What factors contributes to happiness for different countries is interesting. For example more school years increases happiness in certain countries, it's probably correlated with more salaries when a person studies more. I need to create another visual to show the relationship between each factors for each country.
Overall, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Iceland are the happiest countries.