United States Educational Attainment Levels by County

by Audrey Waschura

Description

A data visualization written in C++/glfw/OpenGL of United States Educational Attainment Levels by County. The data comes from individuals 25 years and older and is partitioned into Less than 9th Grade, 9th-12th Grade Without Diploma, High School Diploma (Including Equivalent), Some College Without Degree, Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree, & Graduate or Professional Degree.

Features

• "Game camera" functionality
  • Mouse and wasd keys to move around data for further inspection
• Complete Data Visualized
  • 1 - less than 9th grade
  • 2 - 9th-12th grade, no diploma
  • 3 - high school graduate, including equivalency
  • 4 - some college, no degree
  • 5 - associate's degree
  • 6 - bachelor's degree
  • 7 - graduate or professional degree
• County latitude, longitude values converted to cartesian coordinates
• Only SLO County and Santa Clara County view option for comparison

Pictures

Lessons Learned

• Large percentage of 'some college' population reported in SLO County, CA
• See first image for reference of California 'some college'
• and second image of Santa Clara County on upper left and SLO County on bottom right
  • Highest percentage of grad/professional degree reported in Arlington County, VA
  • See image of Arlington County (the tallest red county) representing the highest reported grad degree percentage

    Sources

    • C++ CSV Parser - CSV Parser Used to Parse Data
    • County Lat Lon Data - Latitude/Longitude for each county
    • County Education Data - All census data, including data used here of percentage population above 25 educational attainment levels