Food insecurity within the Southern US

• This respoitory contains the instructions and contents used to explore the correlation between food insecurity and the average family income within the Southern regions of the US
• To get started, download the Phyton Notebook linked in files and follow along

Content

• Orginal CountyHealthData_2014-2015.csv
• Phyton notebook, detailing the steps to create a subset of data
• New .csv file of the created subset
• 3 data visualizations using subset

Possible Usage

• Indviduals wishing to educate themselves about widespread food insecurity
• This data could be used to develop plans to correct food scarcity
• A data anylsis of this subset can allow indviduals to see the association between a households income and their inability to access food

Data Visualizations

• The map above displays the amount of students who are eligible for free lunch; which is data based off the childs houshold income. You might notice that both Virgina and Tennessse are gray, indicating that their was not data pertaining to children being eligible for free lunch.

Acknowledgements

This repository was created as an assignment for Dr. Gotzler's ENGL105 class

The orginal data set was provided through the class itself

Data visualizations were created using Dattawrapper