SDGdetector {SDGdetector}

Identify SDGs in text

Description

Identify 17 Sustainable Development Goals and associated 169 targets in text.

Usage

SDGdetector(x, col, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

x

Data frame or a string

col

Column name for text to be assessed

quiet

Logical. Suppress info message

Details

In 2015, leaders worldwide adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets to be achieved by 2030 (https://sdgs.un.org). The framework of SDGs serves as a blueprint for shared prosperity for both people and the earth. SDGdetector identifies both direct and indirect expressions of SDGs and associated targets in chunks of text. It takes a data frame with a specified column of text to process as inputs and outputs a data frame with original columns plus matched SDGs and targets.

Value

Data frame with the same columns as the df plus one extra column named "sdgs", which list the occurrence (or hits) of SDG goals or targets detected from each sentence in rows. Users can further use our function summarize_sdg() to clean the result for visulization.

Examples

my_col <- c("our goal is to end poverty globally", "this product
contributes to slowing down climate change")
my_text <- data.frame(my_col)
SDGdetector(my_text, my_col)