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Economic Crisis Changing Brightness of Nighttime Lights in Venezuela: A Geographically Faceted Visualization
School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China
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Abstract
Venezuela’s present economic crisis that began in 2013 has triggered a series of social and political issues. There is a lack of reliable official data to analyze Venezuela’s economic situation. In this study, I use data extracted from the latest brightness of nighttime lights (NTL) image products to create a visualization of Venezuela’s severe economic depression by exhibiting temporal changes in brightness of NTL from 2013 to 2018 of Venezuela.
KeywordsEconomic CrisisNighttime LightsVisualization
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