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    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    4. rtump_is_a_jackbutt on

      Always fun to see Northern Virginia messing up county level stats

    5. Now overlay the results of the last presidential election and I think you’ll see an obvious correlation.

    6. 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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