{"id":1284,"date":"2017-03-08T23:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2017-03-08T23:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:28:32","slug":"student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities-across-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/03\/08\/student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities-across-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Debt at Colleges and Universities Across the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This visualization provides a complete picture of the student debt across different universities in the USA. Firstly, this visualization provides two chart options &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Things I like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, the visualization is interactive and provides data for a five-year period when the play button is used.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The size of bubbles is depicted by enrollment size.<\/li>\n<li>An option is provided for searching a particular university.<\/li>\n<li>A detailed description of graduate\u2019s debts appears when clicked on a particular university<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Room for improvement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Also, an option should have been provided to depict the bubble size based on graduate debt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/05\/13\/business\/student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/05\/13\/business\/student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This visualization provides a complete picture of the student debt across different universities in the USA. Firstly, this visualization provides two chart options &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/03\/08\/student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities-across-the-nation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Student Debt at Colleges and Universities Across the Nation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"sghosh","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/sghosh\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"This visualization provides a complete picture of the student debt across different universities in the USA. 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