Riad Ghoneim's Portfolio
Data Science & Visualization Portfolio - LSE Course Challenges
CC1: Hosting
Display charts in your own site.
Chart 1: Basic Visualization
Chart 2: Second Visualization
CC2: Building
Create your own visualizations.
Chart 1: Custom Built Visualization
Chart 2: Map of the London Underground System
CC3: Debate
Use visualizations in policy commentary.
Policy Topic
The UK should implement a four-day work week to improve productivity and worker wellbeing, as international evidence shows reduced hours increase output per hour.
Chart 1: Productivity vs Working Hours
Countries working fewer hours demonstrate higher productivity per hour.
Chart 2: Worker Burnout Rates
Burnout rates quadruple from part-time to overtime schedules.
CC4: Replication
Re-create, then improve, someone else's chart.
Original Chart
Source: Fox News Bush Tax Cuts (2012)
Improved Chart
Improvements: Fixed truncated Y-axis to start at zero, added proper context and labels, included data source, used clear colors, and showed true proportional change.
CC5: Accessing Data
API and web scraping tasks.
API Chart: Inflation Across North Africa
API Description:
Base URL: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/
Elements: country codes (mar;egy;dza), indicator (NY.GDP.DEFL.KD.ZG), format (json), per_page (300), date range (1990:2024)
Full URL: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/mar;egy;dza/indicator/NY.GDP.DEFL.KD.ZG?format=json&per_page=300&date=1990:2024
Scraper Chart: Egypt Economic Media Sentiment
This chart shows scraped data on Egyptian media sentiment from Arabic news sources.
Challenge: The main challenge was finding websites without CloudFlare protection.
</> View Scraper CodeCC6: Loops
Build a dashboard using batch-downloaded data.
Colab Notebook: View Python Code
Dashboard theme: Egypt Economic Indicators (2000-2024)
CC7: Maps
Base maps and choropleths.
Map 1: Scotland - Major Cities
Coordinates map: Circle size represents population of major Scottish cities.
Map 2: Wales - Disposable Income
Choropleth: Color intensity shows disposable income by region.
CC8: Big Data
Extracting stories from millions of prices.
Dataset used: AutoCPI
Using daily supermarket price data, I tracked essential food prices to show UK inflation trends from 2023-2024, revealing butter experienced the highest increase at 12.3%.
Chart 1: Essential Food Price Trends
Chart 2: Price Change Comparison
CC9: Interactive & Analytics Charts
Advanced interactive and analytical visualizations.
Interactive Chart: Consumer Confidence
Features: Date range sliders for exploring temporal patterns.
Analytics Chart: Regional Inflation Comparison
Method: Multi-country time series analysis.