christina-dhk/measure-of-america

Data Science for All

Measure-of-America

Data Science for All Women's Summit project - Meng Cheng, Elizabeth Hocking, Christina Kim, Chinyere Okoh, Shuang Wu

Measure for America are researching and writing the third edition to “A Portrait of California” in the midst of three global emergencies: the COVID-19 epidemic, an international economic downturn, and climate change; California will bear the brunt of all three of these historic pressures in the midst of a national movement to dismantle institutional racism.

Measure for America’s past Portraits have driven local change in California, promoting health equity, educational opportunity, and economic mobility in places like Sonoma County. The previous report released in 2014 shed light on the huge disparities within the state and gained attention in the news. Now, Measure of America has the opportunity, once again, to guide California change-makers on the road to recovery by mapping the unprecedented and overlapping impact of fire, disease, and economic inequality on its residents. We will focus on one of the emergencies, COVID-19, to contribute to the publication.

In this project, we will investigate data at the relationships between housing, COVID-19 rates and mobility, in order to identify geographic priority areas and racial, ethnic, and resource inequities in the state.

This project is awarded as the best data visualization project in the summit.