The Burden
Higher Education Expenditure Burdens Hispanic Family and Black Family Most
- Course: Infographics and Data Visualization
- Duration: 4 weeks [ Oct 2018 ]
- Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Excel
explore the topic
This project was my midterm project of Infographics and Data Visualization (Fall 2018), which general topic was assigned by Professor.
In the process of creating the infographic, my biggest hurdle was, as a foreigner, I couldn’t relate to the issue of “student loan”. The enormous number or percentage highlighted in the news was just making no sense to me. Therefore, the topic that I most wanted to explore was “how to express the data to the audiences like me who didn’t have any background knowledge or experience about ‘student loan’ so they can have the ‘sense’ of what exactly those numbers mean”.
Some drafts sketched in the process of looking for a detailed topic for the project.
After searching for data for about two weeks, I finally decided to start by comparing tuitions of different kinds of institutions with Median Household Income in the US to reveal to what extent the expenditure of higher education burdens a family in the United States.
the printed version
