US Unemployment Dashboard

Team

Zen Acar, Gina Cameras, Harini Rao, Carlos Santillan

Topic

Our team will create a dashboard to visualize US unemployment trends to understand how COVID has affected unemployment for the following dimensions

  • State
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Industry

Datasets

Who is counted as unemployed?

Source: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

  • All those who did not have a job at all during the survey reference week, made at least one specific active effort to find a job during the prior 4 weeks, and were available for work (unless temporarily ill).
  • All those who were not working and were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off. (They need not be looking for work to be classified as unemployed.)
  • The official unemployment rate for the nation is the number of unemployed as a percentage of the labor force (the sum of the employed and unemployed).

Inspiring Visualizations/links

Sketch of Final Design (3-pages)

2-sketch

GitHub Repository

https://github.com/csantill/Project_2-DataVizards