Developed LaTeX Tables for Conflict Data in Jupyter

📅 2023-03-09 — Session: Developed LaTeX Tables for Conflict Data in Jupyter

🕒 18:25–18:50
🏷️ Labels: Latex, Jupyter, Data Visualization, Africa, Conflict Analysis
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal: The session aimed to develop and demonstrate methods for integrating LaTeX tables into Jupyter Notebooks, specifically for visualizing data on violent conflicts in Africa.

Key Activities:

• Created a structured LaTeX code example to summarize violent conflicts in Africa, covering details like countries, time periods, fatal victims, and displaced persons.
• Provided a code snippet for using the IPython display module to render LaTeX tables within Jupyter Notebooks.
• Explored the use of the longtable package for multi-page tables in Jupyter Notebooks.
• Demonstrated the usage of the LaTeX tabular environment for creating tables in Jupyter Notebooks.
• Offered guidance on inserting tables in Markdown cells of Jupyter Notebooks.

Achievements:

• Successfully integrated LaTeX table formatting into Jupyter Notebooks, enabling improved data visualization for conflict analysis.
• Clarified the limitations of UCDP and ACLED data in violence analysis, emphasizing the potential for incomplete data and unobserved factors.

Pending Tasks:

• Further exploration of alternative data visualization methods to mitigate the limitations of current datasets.