This visualization provides a complete picture of the student debt across different universities in the USA. Firstly, this visualization provides two chart options – a scatterplot and map to visualize the same data. I feel that the map representation is better than the scatterplot as we can identify the universities by their location and it helps us to have e better perspective of the different universities in each state.
Things I like:
- Firstly, the visualization is interactive and provides data for a five-year period when the play button is used.
- A lot of filters are present to drill down the universities thus helping to get insights on different categories like type o institution, enrollment size, graduation rate, graduates with debt%. We can easily identify the universities with high tuition fees and high graduate debt rate which should be avoided.
- The size of bubbles is depicted by enrollment size.
- An option is provided for searching a particular university.
- A detailed description of graduate’s debts appears when clicked on a particular university
Room for improvement:
- Filtering cannot be performed on the basis of more than one category at a particular time. This hinders in providing a detailed analysis of the different universities.
- Also, an option should have been provided to depict the bubble size based on graduate debt.