Visualizing Diversity and Absence in Schools, Child Mortality, and Debate Topics — DataViz Weekly
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The following cool projects visualizing diversity and integration, presidential debate topics, and more have captured our attention this week, and we’re excited to feature them now within the framework of the DataViz Weekly series on AnyChart Blog: Delving into the factors that affect learning at school, the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution created an interactive map that shows so-called ‘chronic absence’ rates for every elementary, middle, and high school in the United States. Attendance is considered critical for academic progress of a student, and chronic absence is recognized as a situation when they’ve missed at least 10% of all school lessons regardless of reason. Explore the diversity and integration of school districts all over the United States of America using a dedicated interactive map published on The Post. According to the ‘Examining Inequality 2019′ report published this week by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and created in collaboration with researchers from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), child mortality rates declined in 2000-2017 in 96 of the 97 low-to-middle-income countries accounting for the vast majority of young children’s deaths. Health care appeared to be the hottest issue during all the three debates, accounting for about one-fifth of all words spoken by Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Julián Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, and other participating candidates.