[Data Journal] “I don’t want to pay for other peoples’ healthcare”: Why the U.S. Pays More for Worse Healthcare
By Aaron Siter-Cohen, Brandon Hill and Charlie Ambler Read the story: “I Don’t Want to Pay for Other Peoples’ Healthcare”: Why the U.S. Spends More For Worse Healthcare The idea for this project was to address the quality and cost of the United States healthcare system. In order to do this, we decided to compare […]
Read MoreHealthcare Spending Per Capita by Country GDP
Data Exploration Journal Brandon Hill Dataset: GDP per capita and health consumption spending per capita, 2020 (U.S. dollars, PPP adjusted) Goal: I want to compare healthcare expenditure in the US to healthcare expenditure in other countries. I’m particularly interested in seeing if there is an expenditure trend when compared to countries with universal healthcare programs. […]
Read MoreData Cleaning and Analysis
Data Cleaning and Analysis Assignment Brandon Hill Goal: I want to find look at data on the cost of Emergency Room visits in the United States. I want to look at this data over time and by location. Finding the data: “Costs of Emergency Department Visits in the United States, 2017” Source: Collected by The […]
Read MoreTime Usage in OECD Countries
When I looked at the dataset of average time usage for people living in OECD countries, my instinct was to find the best way to visually compare the countries to each other. After dumping all of the data into Tableau, I quickly realized that any visual using all of the categories of time usage would […]
Read MoreActive Food Establishment Licenses in Boston
This blog post contains a summary of the data on active food establishment licenses in Boston Mass. provided by Analyze Boston. There are 112 licensed Dunkin’ Donuts in Boston Mass. (ten of those under the name “DUNKIN’” and two “DUNKIN DONUT”). One quick scroll through the comprehensive list of restaurant licenses and the lengthy string […]
Read MoreHousing Cost Comparison: Boston and Omaha
Worlds apart, Boston, Mass. and Omaha, NE. tell very different stories with publicly available data on housing costs. Since my little brother recently moved to Omaha, I thought it would be worthwhile to draw some comparisons to give myself a more relative understanding of his new home through numbers. Before jumping straight into the numbers […]
Read MoreData Visualization: Recontextualizing Wealth and Taxes
This story from Pro Publica may be one of the most important pieces of journalism done this decade. So much of the discourse around the growing wealth gap in the U.S. is entirely circular. The conversation often reaches a dead stop because it’s so difficult to visualize the immense disparity. The arguments, “I don’t want […]
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The Climate Crisis is Now
An Afghan refugee in his early twenties sleeping on a rooftop in Athens, Greece. A Latina prospective college student in Houston who studies by a rationed air conditioner. A small child in Nigerian heat who lives near to the fire of a natural gas line. A middle-aged farmer in Guatemala who works in the sun […]
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