Data Science Final Project: COVID-19 Death/Infection Rate by State and Political Party
Coronavirus Project MIS 0855. pt2 Final Infographics
COVID-19 Death/Infection Rate by State and Political Party
Goals:
- Finding open data source based on our interest
- Doing analysis on the data source
- Creating some data visualizations and infographics
- Interpreting data and documenting results
- Using Piktochart and tableau to work on the data.
Scenario: Looking at the COVID-19 case and death rates in U.S and matching states with their political parties. Showing the rates if they have relation between parties.
Data: CDC’s website to examine metrics of pandemic. The independent variable of the project is the parties of the states.
Key elements: Total deaths, cases, party of the states, election results in 2020, death rates, case rates.
Results
- Data represented current case totals & parties
- Per 100,000 cases, average higher in Republican states (4,367 cases), Democratic states (2,834 cases)
- Death rates,
- Republican states: 1.35%
- Democratic states: 2.2%
Conclusion
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- Higher death rate (per 100,000 people) for democratic states (.85% difference)
- Ride in cases higher for republican states (per 100,000 people( (1,533 difference)
- Democratic states have a greater population density, a higher percentage of Hispanic residents, a larger percentage of urban areas and a greater median income.
- Republican states have a lower median age, a smaller percentage of residents with a bachelor’s degree, a higher rate of uninsured residents, and a higher percentage of people living in poverty.