Is inequality really unequal?

BRIEF

Collecting and visualizing a socially relevant dataset in order to create a narrative around data.

SOLUTION

Is inequality really unequal? is a data storytelling project about inequality in the United States, exploring the relationship between different social issues and the wealth disparity. After a first phase of research to find social relevant matters and look for related data sets, the information has been organized and arranged in spreadsheets and then visually represented with Flourish. The outcome resulting Medium article introduces the concept of the Gini index and relates it respectively with unemployment rate, citizenship, share of population without a high school degree and the gender gap of each US state.

You can read the article here and take a look at the interactive Flourish visualizations down below.

Team: Katarina Rosén, Rebecca Thiel