New Livability Index (Using COLA Data)

The data set is the ostensibly the Cost of Living Data from the 'buzzdata' website that has weighted and indexed to reflect the relative importance of certain items given the importance of the livability index being a function of health and sanity. The livability index can be interpreted as being the 'well-being index and therefore the items chosen for the dataset are focused on these elements.

The visualization is a screen shot of the weighted index table containing a small portion of the pricing information for the market based items specifically selected for inclusion into the new index..

The most critical selections from the original items were selected for inclusion into the new livability index. The importance of health and entertainment items are reflected in the weighting. The more 'important' items have a higher weight whilst the less important items carry a lower weight. A total of 23 items were selected with n-1 = 22.

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