Final project: Data visualization sidebar
Instructions
For this assignment, you will produce a data visualization with a short (at most 250 words) description. This is the sort of thing you might see in a sidebar in a magazine. It might accompany a larger story, but it should be self-contained.
Like the One Number Story, you will submit this assignment as a pull request to the class Quarto blog repository. You will simultaneously submit a Word document to Moodle.
Broadly, the subject of your sidebar is housing.
Data
This semester, we have discussed:
- How to find municipal data
- How to use URL hacks and APIs to find data
- How to scrape data from the web
- How to import Massachusetts property tax records
- How to download home value data
You are free to draw on any of this material in sourcing data for your sidebar.
Topic
Housing is a complicated subject that affects everyone, with many potential avenues for exploration. Your project might address any of the following issues:
- Affordable housing and its availability (or lack thereof)
- Changes in real estate prices
- Disparities in property tax rates and/or revenues
- The influence of a particular person or company on a town
- Houselessness
- New housing developments, building lots, protected lands, land trusts, etc.
- Something else…
Be creative! Pose some questions to yourself, then gather the data you need in order to answer your question.
Requirements
This is an individual assignment. Your project must include:
- a
.qmdfile - exactly one readable, well-crafted, informative data graphic (either static or interactive)
- a short (at most 250 word) description of what you want the reader to see in the data graphic