Data Visualization

Blog of the Data Visualization & Communication Course at OSB-AUB

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization” John Tukey

Child Labour in Africa

This is Hamisi, an 11 year who has a career as a miner. Hamisi dropped out of his third year of primary school and left his home village after his father was unable to pay for his uniform and school fees. Although Hamisi's parents have their own half-acre coffee farm,...

Culture vs. Female Employment to Population Ratio

While going through the World Development Indicators, it was apparent that many of those showed the differences between genders. I chose to focus on a topic that I have personally suffered from – professional discrimination in my own culture. Through this dashboard, I look further into the differences in Female and Male Employment to Population Ratios in different cultural regions.

Underrepresentation of Females in the Workplace in Lebanon

Meet Zeina, a fresh software engineer graduate from the American University of Beirut. Thrilled and excited to embark onto a new chapter in her life, Zeina started her job-hunting journey. However !!! “Your profile and skills match perfectly well the requirements of...

Covid-19 Cases & Deaths Dashboard (Jan 22-May 2)

As part of the MSBA 325 Final Project done on Covid-19 and its impact on the World, we have created a time-lapse interactive Covid-19 tracker dashboard containing the following sections: A map to show the total confirmed active cases and new cases based on the user’s...

Speeding, drunk driving main causes of road accidents in Lebanon.

In every Lebanese driver, there is a hidden Michael Schumacher inside of him/her. Unfortunately with all NGOs providing all possible resources for the promotion of road safety awareness, car accidents numbers are all the way up. The sad part is that drinking and...

Africa – a call for clean water and sanitation

Water is a basic human need; without it, survival is not possible. Every day, 2.1 billion people wake up with no access to clean water. In other words, millions of families around the world do not drink, cook, or shower with clean water. Each year, 3.4 million people...

Government Health Expenditure on Life Expectancy

The most important statistic for measuring population health is life expectancy. Life expectancy captures mortality across the whole life course, making it more comprehensive than the restricted measure of newborn and child mortality, which concentrates only on...

From the Streets of Tripoli to Classrooms: Getting kids back to learning

NO to child labor, YES to safe and quality education Growing up in Lebanon has been a challenge for all of us. We went through wars, political instability, economic crisis, and many more shocking events. Nevertheless, we are considered lucky enough to have a safe...

The impact of CO2 emission on Global Warming

Antarctica has been suffering for years due to the high CO2 emission levels around the globe. I have brought an expert that would be able to shed light on the matter based on personal experience and what he and his family have been witnessing for the past decades....

Gender Inequality in numbers

Gender inequality has been present in the workforce, in education, and in daily aspects of our lives. We can see that in numbers when we measure how males and females differ in terms of access to employment, promotions at work, mobility, and how they spend their times.

Toward Reliable Healthcare Systems

Toward Reliable Healthcare Systems

The covid-19 pandemic has wiped out decades worth of global health progress. This has affected different countries disproportionately, as weaker healthcare systems were more prone to the pandemic. While service coverage has improved in the last 20 years, the...

Poor Access to Electricity in West and Central Africa

Poor Access to Electricity in West and Central Africa

Despite rising commodity prices and concerns from international leaders about energy scarcities and gas costs at the pump, millions of people in Africa still do not have access to electricity. Only three nations in West and Central Africa are on track to provide power...

Road Safety in Lebanon

Road Safety in Lebanon

ALERT TODAY, ALIVE TOMORROW Contributors: Bashar Salha, Mohamad Kheir El Daouk, Rani Abu Dehn, Raoul El Khazen, Rima Wehbe. Road Safety: Background Information The World Health Organization estimates that around 1.3 million people die and that 30 to 50 million are...

Lebanon – Negative Wheat Supply Shock

Lebanon – Negative Wheat Supply Shock

Contributors: Amin Ghobar, Basilio Diaz, Daniel Raidan, Sally Harb, Stephany Said, and Wissam Malaeb. Wheat Supply and Food Insecurity in Lebanon A principal element to boost food security in developing countries is matching the demand for wheat as it is one of the...

Wave after wave: the Lebanese Brain Drain

Wave after wave: the Lebanese Brain Drain

Yara Haddad, Diana Matar, Nouha Abardazzou, Malek Ben Abdallah, Bashir Choucair Abu Mazen, a 60 year old Lebanese man spends his days searching for a job opportunity in order to be able to provide to his disabled wife, and to make use of his capabilities. Em Mazen...

Equality For Tomorrow

Equality For Tomorrow

Team: Jana Chazbeck, Olguinia El Ferzli, Josephine Kaadou, Haydar Hamdan and Rawane Ibrahim. Note that you can watch the videos here if you faced any technical or connections issues while visiting the website: Reinvented toilets video: Volunteers video: Thank You for...

Education and Early Marriage

Education and Early Marriage

Fatou is a 27-year-old housewife. At 15 years old, she decided to quit her education to get married to the love of her life, a man 8 years older than her, who had promised her a wealthy life in which she wouldn’t worry about a thing. A few years into her marriage, her...

Re-balancing the scales in the Pharma Sector

Re-balancing the scales in the Pharma Sector

“I had to work twelve-hour shifts, for seven days weekly in order to keep up with my son’s medication prices, which keep increasing every week. Only to later find out that, when I had the money, I could not find the drug. ” This was the story of Wafic, one more...

Child Mortality: The Underlying Tragedy

Child Mortality: The Underlying Tragedy

Our world today is much safer than it was 40 years ago. One powerful indicator to reflect societal living conditions is child mortality rates, given the many sensitive factors required for a newborn or a child to grow in health. Generalizing the matter to include the...

Education Can Solve Unemployment

Education Can Solve Unemployment

Amal wishes to find a job Amal, an Egyptian 30-year-old girl, has been unemployed for the past three years. Her organization laid her off after being with them for 10 years because of the pandemic. Amal couldn’t continue her education because she had to help her...

Earth: A story of a Sick Mother with Smart Children

Earth: A story of a Sick Mother with Smart Children

    As we grow up, we become more aware of the sacrifices our parents and family make for us to live a decent life. As early as our teenage years, we dream of the day we'll be able to reward them for what they've done. How many times have we heard someone...

Mortality caused by unintentional poisoning in Africa

Mortality caused by unintentional poisoning in Africa

The mortality rate in Africa countries is very high compared to other countries worldwide. One cause of the mortality rate is the unintentional poisoning especially children. Because of the high poverty rate, low access to water, and high literacy rate, people are not...

Gender Parity: A hidden opportunity for sustainable economic growth

Gender Parity: A hidden opportunity for sustainable economic growth

"Hiring and promoting talented women is the right thing to do for society, and its economic imperatives."                                                                                                                                                     Carlos Ghosn...

Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women

Women all over the world are abused on a daily basis for a variety of reasons, or at least for one. Men abuse women every day for inconvenient reasons. Following a survey of a few women from various backgrounds, the average number of violated women for the following...