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The last data update I published on June 26th, 2017, had been incorrect due to the “decreased number of refugees leaving Syria”.   The number of refugees was wrong, as I had the “sum of count” instead of the the “sum of total refugees and people in refugee-like situations”.  Also, regarding my last blog, I had mentioned that “...certain countries in Europe had to take steps to not take-in and accept any refugees in their countries for security measures and due to the amount of refugees they’ve already acquired;” I did not mean, nor wanted to impose that refugees are “dangerous and/or imposed a threat to other countries”.  There are many articles like the one provided by CNN indicating that some European countries had stopped or tightened their laws with regards to accepting more refugees, due to the amount they they have already accepted within their countries.   With the updated data provided above, the United Nations reports that there’s been an i...

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The UN Refugee data reports a decreased amount of refugees leaving Syria.   Starting in the year of 2003, a total of 2, 248, 919 refugees left Syria and sought refuge in different countries.   In 2011, the year of which the Syrian War started, only 924, 650 Syrian refugees were helped by the UN; then total amount of refugee decreased in 2012 to 735, 304 and in 2013 to 248, 214.   The data on refugees recorded by the UN may be skewed and incorrect.   Since the Syrian War, there has been an increase of refugees fleeing Syria and seeking refuge across Europe and around the world.   Certain countries in Europe had to take steps to not take-in and accept any refugees in their countries for security measures and due to the amount of refugees they already acquired.   Data collected by the UN may be skewed and incorrect due to an increase of undocumented and unregistered refugees.   With the state of the war, Syrian refugees and citizens may have done an...

What data set will you use for your final report? (describe your dataset, include a link to it and claim it at the URL above). Link to Data set: http://data.un.org/Search.aspx?q=refugee United Nations Refugee Data Describe the data set. What kind of data does it contain? The United Nations data on Refugee provides the number of recorded refugees and “refugee-like” person who had sought refuge to another country.  This collection of data contains the number of refugees and “refugee-like” people between the years of 1975 to 2013.  It contains the total number of refugees, their country of origin and their country of refuge.   This data does not show the number of unrecorded and undocumented asylum seekers.  It only contains the number of refugees who has been helped and documented by the UN.         Is there anything about your data that you don’t understand? (i.e. what a column heading means). How will...

The U.S. 2016 presidential election between Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton, versus, Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, not only had Americans shocked on election night -- but the entire world.  The unexpected surprises on election night included, Republican nominee Donald J. Trump winning and becoming the 45th President of the United States of America, the number of red (Republican) states he had taken over from the Democrats, and winning with majority in both the Congress and Senate Houses.  This map outlines how the American Electoral College voted in the 2016 presidential election. The Good  This map used by Politco, outlined how the American Electoral College voted.  It used colours to represent the different parties and how each state voted.  The colour red represented the Republican Party and the colour blue the Democrats.  The map has each state properly labelled and also illustrates the divide between the red states and blue stat...