The Wellbeing Lab — Build, Compare, and Simulate Better Countries with Plotly Studio
Inspiration
I wanted to do something new instead of just showing wellbeing dashboards that stop at “here are the numbers.” I wanted something that helps people decide—not just observe. That’s why I built a tool where anyone can sketch an ideal future, find real-world matches, and run what-if simulations to see what would actually move the needle.
What it does (at a glance)
- Draw an ideal profile across 11 wellbeing domains and instantly see the Top 5 matching countries.
- Reveal the strongest drivers of life satisfaction with sign-aware correlations.
- Compare two countries head-to-head and surface the biggest gaps first.
Key Charts I included & why
1) Radar (Polar) Chart — Ideal Country Profile Match
Why: A radar chart makes an 11-dimension “fingerprint” instantly visual. I let users draw their ideal with sliders, then I compute cosine similarity to every country and overlay the best match so you can see the shape match, not just a score.
2) Waterfall Chart — Build-a-Country Scorecard (what-if sandbox)
Why: When you apply ±% changes to domains, the waterfall shows the contribution of each change to the final composite score. It ends with a new total, and I annotate the rank change among peers, which turns simulation into a decision.
3) (Utility) Ranked List + Annotations
Why: After the similarity and correlation steps, I add ranked lists (Top 5 matches, top predictors) and concise annotations so the story is explicit without hunting through tooltips.
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