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NASA dataset "2020 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)"

Data set choice

  1. Explored homepage structure and content via browsing and watching this introductory video
  2. Chose the third among candidate datasets as it has a spatial as well as temporal component:

Download data

  1. Register to EOSDIS Earthdata before data access or--as discovered later--simpler, download csv files here
  2. To visualize the EPIs as a choropleth map, download world's country borders
  3. Add gross domestic product (GDP) from the World Bank

Read, explore and visualize data

  1. Read all the csv files and merge the components of interest into one data.frame (epi)
  2. Collate country naming
  3. Create choropleth map with R leaflet
  4. Plot national and regional overviews of the EPI and compare it to the GDP
  5. Add a structural equation model of the EPIs and explanatory variables (EPIs, region etc)

To do

  1. Display the results in a blogdown/ Hugo website