MY PROJECTS
The goal of this project was to determine what predictors were important in predicting life expectancy and what model bests predicts life expectancy. We wanted to see what health and socioeconomic indicators might help to predict whether the life expectancy of a country might be high or low. For example, does a low HIV/AIDS rating and a large number of years the individual attended school mean a country is going to have a longer life expectancy for their citizens?
Code for the project can be found here: https://github.com/pjmerica/415-final-Project
In 2008, the most significant recession since the Great Depression hit the United States, and later the entire world. Many areas are still feeling the effects of this recession today. It has been a prevailing economic theory that people have been flocking to bigger cities to look for jobs. Many have thought this has appeared to be accelerated by the recession and job scarcity. A simple conclusion from this would be that states with big cities would recover more completely from the recession of 2008 than states that did not have big cities. The point of this research paper will be to investigate whether states with bigger cities(as defined in this paper as having a population of >500,000) have recovered differently in terms of unemployment than states without big cities.
Code for the project can be found here:
https://github.com/pjmeric/BigCityProj