Religious Landscape In Russia And Ukraine

This study was made as a part of Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python course by the University of Michigan.

The task was to:

• find data related to religion in my area;
• visualize it using the best practices and principles of data visualization;
• use it to answer some questions.

Here are the results:

Religious landscape in Russia and Ukraine.

Questions and answers

1. How many citizens in Russia called themselves Muslim?

   There were 43.5 mln or 30.2% of total population identified themselves as Muslim in Russia in 2016.

2. How many citizens in Ukraine called themselves Muslim?

   There were 0.8 mln or 0.6% of total population identified themselves as Muslim in Ukraine in 2016.

Some lesons learned

• Finding and cleaning the data takes much time.
• Data from [3] was in SPSS (.sav) format. I had to convert it into a .csv file with RStudio.

Data sources

1. Russia’s population by Worldometers;
2. Ukraine’s population by Worldometers;
3. Eastern European Survey Dataset by Pew Research Center.

The code is available on GitHub.