Economic and Political Forecasting with Machine Learning Paradigms

Our reccomendation to the Economic Intelligence Unit: A holistic approach to forecasting key fundamental indicators like GDP Per Capita PPP, Political Stability and HDI.

Machine learning techniques used: Linear Regression, Classification and Regression Trees (CART)

In this repository,

1. Datasets Cleaned - contains downloadable CSV all cleaned datasets
2. Datasets Raw - contains CSV of all raw datasets
3. R Codes - Contains R code use to clean the data and execute machine learning
4. Dataset sources with downloadable links - Note: If data downloaded as xlsx, it has to be manually converted to CSV via changing file type
5. Data Dictionary - Contains description and data type of all variables used, including encoded variables.

Contributors:
Joshua Khoo
Nicholas Wong Yan Long
Michelle Lam Su-Ann
Lu Yifei
Luo Yiying