Dataset

This project explores the US Census Data from Kaggle. It includes the census data for all counties in 2015.

Objective

The goal of this project is to answer this main question: How does income and poverty look across America? In order to answer the main question, I came up with two research questions.

Research Questions

• On average, what does the rate of poverty looks like in the United States?
• What is the relationship between Poverty and Unemployment rates?

The interactive version of the plots can be accessed on my Tableau Public Link: Income Disparity

Rate of Poverty

Insights:

• The bar chart simply highlights the average rate of poverty in the States. The chart shows Puerto Rico to have the highest rate of poverty at 49% and Connecticut with the least rate at 9.4%

Relationship between Poverty and Unemployment Rates

Insights:

The Scatter plot shows the relationship between the average Poverty and Unemployment rates. The correlation coefficient of 0.64 indicate a positive and moderate relationship between the two variables. This suggests that as Unemployment rate increases, poverty rates increase and vice-versa.