World Happiness Analysis Dashboard

This dashboard provides a look at what affects happiness worldwide, using factors like freedom, social support, generosity, and GDP per person. The data comes from the World Happiness Report, which uses surveys and global data sources. Here’s a breakdown of each part:

1. Data Source

World Happiness Report: Comprehensive data on happiness factors such as freedom, social support, generosity, and GDP across countries, available at https://worldhappiness.report/data/.

2. Global Freedom to Make Choices by Country

This map shows freedom levels and healthy life scores for each country. Darker colors mean more freedom, showing where people feel more control over their lives. Pointing at a country also shows its healthy life score, meaning how healthy people are overall. This map highlights countries with both high freedom and good health.

 3. Relationship between Life Ladder (Happiness) and Social Support by Country

The scatter plot compares happiness (Life Ladder scores) with social support in different countries. Each circle is a country, and a bigger circle mean higher happiness.

4. Top 10 Countries by Happiness Score and GDP

This treemap shows the 10 happiest countries, with blocks sized by happiness level and coloured by GDP per person.

5. Generosity and Life Ladder Scores by Country

This bubble chart shows the link between generosity and happiness. Larger, more colourful bubbles represent countries with higher generosity and happiness.

Association Rules for High Happiness Levels

What are Association Rules?

Association rules find patterns by linking different factors. Here, they identify combinations of factors (like high GDP and strong social support) that are often found in happier countries. Each rule includes:

• Antecedent: 

Conditions that need to be true, like “GDP per capita >= 10” and “Social support >= 0.8.”

• Consequent: 

The outcome, usually a high happiness score.

Metrics in Association Rules

1. Support: Shows how often a rule applies in the data. For example, if support is 0.2, the rule applies to 20% of countries.

2. Confidence: Shows how often the outcome is true when the conditions are met. A confidence of 0.8 means the outcome happens 80% of the time when the conditions are true.

Key Insights from Association Rules Analysis

• Economic and Social Factors Together Boost Happiness: High GDP combined with strong social support is often linked with happiness, showing that economic stability and social connections are both important.

• Personal Freedom and Health Matter for Happiness: Rules with high personal freedom and good health also lead to higher happiness, emphasizing their role in well-being.

• Happiness Comes from Multiple Positive Factors: Countries with higher happiness usually have a mix of favourable conditions, such as high social support, good economy, and personal freedom, rather than relying on just one factor.

Check out the World Universities and Well-Being Dashboards for more insights