The educational attainment data for this visual was gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s API. The data is provided from 2020-2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates and is for the percentage of people that are 25 years old and older. After I scraped the data from the API using Python, I then used Tableau to create this viz.
Affectionate-Map2583 on
Interesting that my county in MD has the highest high school graduation rate (93.4%) but a lower bachelor’s degree rate (40.7%) than surrounding counties.
throwaway3113151 on
Nice plot. I wonder if there is a need for here to consider the population age distribution of each county, given that college is more common now than it was, say, 30 or 40 years ago.
1776cookies on
Well, this explains a few things where I live
rtump_is_a_jackbutt on
Always fun to see Northern Virginia messing up county level stats
Redfish680 on
Used to live and work in Los Alamos, NM.
yermommy on
Now overlay the results of the last presidential election and I think you’ll see an obvious correlation.
del_rio on
64% of Manhattan having a college degree is both unsurprising but also wild to think about. Thats the entire population of Alaska or North Dakota, living on a 20 square mile island.
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The educational attainment data for this visual was gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau’s API. The data is provided from 2020-2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates and is for the percentage of people that are 25 years old and older. After I scraped the data from the API using Python, I then used Tableau to create this viz.
Interesting that my county in MD has the highest high school graduation rate (93.4%) but a lower bachelor’s degree rate (40.7%) than surrounding counties.
Nice plot. I wonder if there is a need for here to consider the population age distribution of each county, given that college is more common now than it was, say, 30 or 40 years ago.
Well, this explains a few things where I live
Always fun to see Northern Virginia messing up county level stats
Used to live and work in Los Alamos, NM.
Now overlay the results of the last presidential election and I think you’ll see an obvious correlation.
64% of Manhattan having a college degree is both unsurprising but also wild to think about. Thats the entire population of Alaska or North Dakota, living on a 20 square mile island.