HelpMeViz » Tableau http://helpmeviz.com Helping people with everyday data visualizations Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:55:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 SNAP Participation & Outreach http://helpmeviz.com/2014/06/02/snap-participation-outreach/ http://helpmeviz.com/2014/06/02/snap-participation-outreach/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 02:10:05 +0000 http://helpmeviz.com/?p=463 I am trying to visualize the relationship between Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (“food stamps”) participation and community outreach by state (data here). I started with a scatterplot, which showed a strong positive correlation between the two variables, but the (potential causal) relationship is more complicated than these two variables (and the visual was not particularly interesting). Instead, […]

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]]> I am trying to visualize the relationship between Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (“food stamps”) participation and community outreach by state (data here). I started with a scatterplot, which showed a strong positive correlation between the two variables, but the (potential causal) relationship is more complicated than these two variables (and the visual was not particularly interesting). Instead, I settled on a bubble chart: Color shows averages in thousands of dollars and size shows average monthly SNAP participation (in persons). The visual is a screen shot from my first attempt at using Tableau.

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