Patterns of inequality Data Visualization Project

One of the sharpest manifestations of racism in the United States is its prison system. 

A complex set of social and political structures, including the over-policing (Links to an external site.) of individuals of color and the war on drugs (Links to an external site.) have led to the disproportionate incarceration of people of color.

 These issues are very well summarized in the documentary 13th, which you can watch for free (Links to an external site.).

In this assignment, you will use your data analysis and visualization skills to expose patterns of inequality using incarceration data collected by the Vera Institute (Links to an external site.). In doing so, you will:

Work with a real world, messy dataset

Choose your own direction for analysis, including which variables to analyze and compare

Design and build compelling visualizations to expose particular patterns in the data

Create a website (using RMarkdown) to share your results