Author: Qi Chen

1. Introduction

In the previous part, we introduced some data visualization techniques and showed the relationship of GDP, healthcare investment and life expectancy grouped by countries. In this article, we will focus on poverty and obesity, and analyze the dataset from United States Department of Agriculture. Specifically, by analyzing the dataset using data visualization techniques, we want to explore the following questions:

1. How does poverty rate vary within racial and ethnic groups?
2. Does the milk/soda price ratio influence obesity rate?
3. Are the obesity and diabetes rates higher in fast paced states like New York States than in agricultural states like Wisconsin?… Read more