This visualization is a very simple visualization due to the goal that I set out for it to accomplish. Rather than driving into nitty-gritty details similar to the first visualization, my goal with this visualization is simply to cause users to stop and think. As we can see, it is a multi-line line chart where each line represents a different race, and the values represent the national unemployment percentage for each respective group. Tableau interactivity includes: a tooltip when hovering over edges, brushing/highlighting features, and the ability to command-click to compare two points. Hovering and the tooltip go hand-in-hand to display the year and the national unemployment percentage for a given racial group. Brushing/highlighting allows the user to focus on a specific data point or a specific line itself. Command-clicking further emphasizes this by allowing the user to select two points that they might be interested in comparing. This highlights the selected points and allows the user to compare values. A few interesting aspects of this visualization include the trend that all races follow. Everything that one group experiences, each and every other group experiences that same trend, it is simply more severe for some groups in comparison to others (i.e. unemployment rates for Pacific Islanders in comparison to unemployment rates for Asian-Americans). Why is this? In addition, why is there such a lack of data? Why was it not until just recently that an interest has been taken in monitoring the data of minority groups such as Asians and Native Americans? Furthermore, what trend allows Asians to have the smallest percentages of unemployment in comparison to all other racial groups?
As mentioned above, the goal for this supplementary visualization was not to go in-depth with details, but it was to get the user to think about why trends are the way they are. We often consider unemployment to be a very one-dimensional problem. If an individual is unemployed and having trouble finding a job, we are quick to assume their resume is lackluster or they are frivolous and not taking job searching seriously. Have you ever considered racial implications behind why certain individuals are unemployed? Being honest, I hadn't either prior to researching for this project. But simply from viewing the data we can see that there are many questions that can be asked. From inquiring about why the unemployment rate for blacks is consistently high or investigating why Asian employment has been so successful. Simply stop and think about some of these underlying issues. That is what I hoped to highlight.
Due to the simple nature of Tableau, I don't have anyone or any design to credit. The dataset used can be found here on Statistic Table 15.