A culstering exercize, based on 6 variables representing different dimensions of development, in order to find out if Israel was similar to other developed countries already in the 1960's, or later.
This project is for my book on the economic history of Israel. I published the results in my blog (in Hebrew): https://orikatz.wordpress.com/2019/11/29/israel_clustering/
Data files:
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Countries - include many countries and variables for many years, mostly from the World Bank Indicators databse: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator. I didn't use most of the variables.
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Maddison - gdp per capita data from the Maddison project. source: https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2018
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Country averages for each decade - created from the original Countries database, only the countries and variables used in the analysis.
Python notebook:
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Clustering analysis - includes the clustering and pca plots.
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Descriptive analysis - includes all other graphs.