ENG221.000 Spring 2017
I was particularly interested in looking at the children’s income distribution in relation to the parent’s income distribution. I thought it was interesting that most children don’t earn as much as their parents since many people go to school and work hard so that the next generation can have an easier life. In the graph […]
In looking at the Equality of Opportunity Project, perhaps an aspect of our data visualization can focus on the social issues of the students. For example, examining race, gender, how many parents per household, how many children per household, whether the parents are employed, whether the student is employed, etc. This will allow us to …
3/23 Describe what you imagine our collective equality of opportunity project might look like when it’s finished. Describe three or four main sections of that site with a brief description of what sorts of questions or subjects they might address. […]
Trying to come up with a picture of what I thought this project would turn into seemed like a daunting task. I wasn’t successful until I just dove into the data. After looking for trends and comparing different different values, I came up with this […]
As we grabble through where we would like to take this project, I believe that race is a very salient aspect of the major disparities in opportunities, and even further, just plain accessibility. Whether it be through the systemic issues that face predominantly minority communities (heavy policing, bad school systems, criminalizing misunderstood kids and […]
So, maybe I cheated on this one. I’ll let you decide. Above is my sketch of what I envision our data visualization to look like. This is a rough visualization of even that, so maybe that is why I don’t feel so bad about this. I honestly am not sure what else it would look …
My idea for how we could visualize the Opportunity Project data is dividing into groups focused on data from the institutions in a specific geographic area. As I reflected on my own educational experiences as well as those of people I have grown up with in the Southeast, I wondered if geographical regions have a significant effect on …
