hdx_fetch_basic

by Maroun Bou Sleiman

This is a demonstration of how to read data from Humanitarian Data Exchange, through their rhdx package and plot some graphs.

Special focus on Lebanon, Facebook and Google mobility in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Beirut Port Explosion.

Main report is publically available here

Shield:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Renku generic information

Introduction

This is a Renku project - basically a git repository with some bells and whistles. You'll find we have already created some useful things like data and notebooks directories and a Dockerfile.

Working with the project

The simplest way to start your project is right from the Renku platform - just click on the Environments tab and start a new session. This will start an interactive environment right in your browser.

To work with the project anywhere outside the Renku platform, click the Settings tab where you will find the git repo URLs - use git to clone the project on whichever machine you want.

Changing interactive environment dependencies

Initially we install a very minimal set of packages to keep the images small. However, you can add python and conda packages in requirements.txt and environment.yml, and R packages to install.R (listed as, for example, install.packages("ggplot2")), to your heart's content. If you need more fine-grained control over your environment, please see the documentation.

Project configuration

Project options can be found in .renku/renku.ini. In this project there is currently only one option, which specifies the default type of environment to open, in this case /rstudio.

Moving forward

Once you feel at home with your project, we recommend that you replace this README file with your own project documentation! Happy data wrangling!