Visualizing New Zealand's budgets (2018-2023)

(Research Tool), Dr Karam Shaar, 08 Jun 2022

Every year, the New Zealand Treasury publishes data on the last six national budgets, in two Excel files containing over 7,000 entries. The sheer amount of data makes it very difficult to assess the composition of revenues and expenditures and how they changed over time. This interactive tool allows you to plot New Zealand's budgets as you please: by year, the type of spending or revenue, the portfolio, the department in charge, and more. You can download the data underlying each figure you build, in an Excel format using the download button below the visualization.

Visualizing UN procurements from Syria (2015-2020)

Operations and Policy Center (Research Tool), Dr Karam Shaar,18 Apr 2022

United Nations agencies procure many commodities and services from Syria to support their aid operations in the country. In 2020, for example, $245 million was spent on procurement, which constitutes nearly 10% of the UN’s overall spending in Syria. In this research tool, Dr Karam Shaar illustrates the data in an interactive dashboard, enabling those interested to make better sense of it.

Interactive Dashboard of Individuals Targeted by US and EU Syria Sanctions

(Research Tool), Dr Karam Shaar and Ammar al-Nakeeb, 01 Mar 2022

This interactive research tool summarizes everything you need to know about individuals targeted by US and EU sanctions within Syria programs. It makes it easier to find the official information relating to each individual, such as the reason for targeting, age, and country of birth. Dr Karam Shaar and Ammar al-Nakeeb have added other variables useful for analytical purposes, such as association with the army or security apparatus, ethnicity, religion, occupation, and country of residence.

Visualizing Syria’s 2020, 2021, and 2022 Budgets

Operations and Policy Center (Research Tool), Dr Karam Shaar, 17 Jan 2022

OPC has obtained a line-by-line breakdown of the 2020, 2021, 2022 budgets. To make a more digestible and useful research tool, OPC has visualized the data in an interactive dashboard.