Uncharted Nuuk: Data Exploration in Search of the Unexpected
summary
Nuuk population data from Statistics Greenland (roughly 18–20k people) is pulled via a shared Nordic API using an R API wrapper, cleaned with tidyverse and visualized with ggplot2; a simple line shows growth but a surprising sex imbalance of about a thousand extra men emerges. A faceted violin+point plot reveals that the male surplus concentrates in ages ~40–50 and among people born outside Greenland, explaining the earlier anomaly. ChatGPT generates slide illustrations.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Data exploration intro
- 1:01Nuuk demographics
- 3:33Greenland data viz challenges
- 5:21Accessing population data
- 6:47Why graphs matter
- 8:14Surprise in data viz
- 10:24Viz in data analysis
- 11:06Population growth by district
- 12:16Mean age trends & quality
- 13:27Gender imbalance in Nuuk
- 14:35Age distribution viz
- 16:44Comparing group distributions
- 19:15Final insights
- 19:57Q&A
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