Parallel Coordinates

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About the Data

The data used for this visualization comes from a study of the role of colleges in intergenerational mobility conducted by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan in 2017 as part of the Equality of Opportunity Project. This particular dataset has information about colleges across the United States with statistics recorded about the school itself, student income, parent income, mobility rate, and female representation. Overall, this data can help us show us what types of school have students with well-off upbringings versus those that are less fortunate.

Interpretations

The visualizations below can be interpreted by looking at the three different colors on the graph. Each color represents a different type of college, out of public, private non-profit, and private for-profit. The first axis also represents the same attribute, of tier 1, tier 2, and tier three, which corresponds to each type of school, respectively. As you move to the right, each additional axis displays a different attribute from the conducted study. The greater the clumps show a greater concentration of data recorded at that point.

Conclusions

This graph shows us that all three types of schools have generic clusters in some of the categories, like average count of students per cohort and average amount of females that attend the university. The most scattered type is private non-profit universities, which seem the least clustered together, while public and private for-profit schools have trends. It is evident that the more of the parents with higher incomes have students that go to private schools (not for profit) than those who do not. However, it is interesting to see that those schools with very low parent incomes are private schools (for profit). Because the schools are for-profit, it may be that they give their prospective students higher scholarships to be able to attend.


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I am currently pursuing a Finance major at the University of San Francisco with a Computer Science minor.
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Adapted from Mike Bostock