Exploring News Sentiment: Feb'21

Are you getting positive or negative news

Posted on March 18, 2021

News_Feb_2021.utf8 It has been nearly seven months since I put up anything on my blog due to undertaking some life and time-devouring projects in my professional life. While my blog writing was de-prioritized, I managed to learn some tricks on text analysis through byte sized online learning. Today, I am... [Read More]

Tags: Tidyverse R Tidytext News tutorial Sentiment Bangladesh

Visualizing Bangladesh Premier League Football 2019

Charting the rise of Bashundhara Kings

Posted on December 19, 2019

Though a bit late to the party, finally done with a racing bar chart with Bangladesh Premier League Football 2019 points table. Steps taken: * Scraped match data from web * Lots of cleansing and munging specially to interpolate a smooth transition between numbers * Animation (easy part) * Animation... [Read More]

Tags: games sports Bangladesh Premier League Football Chart Points

Visualizing Bangladesh #5

Labor force participation by gender over the years

Posted on December 5, 2019

This is the fifth entry in my series of Visualizing Bangladesh. This time an animated chart of labor participation rate by male and female over the years for people aged 15-64 years . Female participation rate vastly improved (+11 pp in just last decade) and the gap is closing in... [Read More]

Tags: tech Bangladesh Labor Force Female Empowerment

Visualizing Bangladesh #4

Population Mix over the Years

Posted on November 28, 2019

This is the fourth entry in my series of Visualizing Bangladesh. This time an animated chart of population mix over the years. Bangladesh will be primed with youth working population between 2020 to 2030. It is hammer time for economic progress.  Data Source: World Bank... [Read More]

Tags: tech Bangladesh Population Mix Distribution

Visualizing Bangladesh #3

Mobile Telecom Subscriber by Year

Posted on November 14, 2019

This is the third entry in my series of Visualizing Bangladesh. This time an animated chart of mobile telecom subscriber trend with key events from 2001 onwards.  Mobile telephony in Bangladesh actually started in 1989 but due to subscriber data unavailability, I have to start from... [Read More]

Tags: tech Bangladesh Mobile Subscriber Telecommunication Grameenphone Banglalink Robi Axiata

Visualizing Bangladesh #02

GDP Distribution by Sector

Posted on February 9, 2019

It has been almost a year and a half since I did my entry on Visualizing Bangladesh. This is the second entry highlighting GDP distribution by sector at current prices for 2017-18. The source data can be found here in Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The values are all in BDT... [Read More]

Tags: Bangladesh Data Visualization GDP Maps tech GIS Interactive

4G launched in Bangladesh

Benefits and to-dos to avail the service

Posted on February 24, 2018

4G has been launched in Bangladesh on 19-Feb'2018 by four operators - Grameenphone, Robi, Banglalink and state-owned Teletalk . Though everyone is raving about higher speed(throughput), 4G is not about brute speed only. It is also about user experience. So, lets check how the experience fares. The test has been... [Read More]

Tags: tech Bangladesh 4G LTE Telecommunication

Visualizing Bangladesh #01

Household Density by Thana

Posted on October 27, 2017

While searching for data related to Bangladesh, I stumbled upon lots of obstacles - shoddy unresponsive websites, badly formatted tables nightmarishly embedded in pdfs and little to no visualization. To allay this, we are starting this new series with the aim to visualize Bangladesh- one graph at a time. This... [Read More]

Tags: Bangladesh Data Visualization Thana Household Density Maps tech GIS Interactive