I have two poverty dashboards based on ACS5 data, one has a state filter, one just a full listing of counties. No prior year because of COVID etc, so I'll wait till 2022 comes out and put 2022 vs 2021 data in. I might put in a little more effort, but I also want a housing dashboard, gov programs (SSI, UI,SNAP etc.), Race, Grandparents and maybe a few more. Not looking for perfect, but just some good recaps.What I really hoped to find when I first look for Census data. They both look about the same so I'm only posting one.
https://public.tableau.com/views/Poverty_by_County2/Poverty_by_County?:language=en-US&publish=yes&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link
Thanks!
It might be helpful to know who your prospective audience and use case for this is. It's helpful that you provided baseline US numbers for context (state might be useful as well). I'd consider including…
The issue of "county based" poverty numbers or even any numbers from all of the counties is that there are very many small counties in the United States. In fact, only about 1,300 are large than…
The issue might be clearer if you refer to each of them with their full range, 2018-2022 and 2017-2021. If you compare the two, you're not comparing 2022 with 2021. Sometimes we'll use the final year as…
A few comments:
1. If possible have the All button checked when the dashboard is opened. Without that being the case if I want to look at one state I first need to check the box the uncheck the box to the deselect all states then pick the state I want. Alternatively, open the dashboard as a single value list.
2. Its unclear to me what the H flag denotes
3. If possible find a way to remove the US value columns. Would it be possible to have the US always appear as a geography no matter what the filter? If so then you could dispense with several columns and make your font size a bit larger.
I have another dashboard with 1 state selected, sorting by state and a few other elements work better. H was a last minute decision and means really big difference vs US, I need to fix it somehow or drop it. I can easily drop the repeated US columns, and get more space, but some people really like them (???). I will have a menu or method of going between the dashboards and have a US country map that covers this poverty data, but I haven't figured out which fields to use. I really like heat maps that highlight ranges.