An interactive graphic developed by the American Human Development Project and the United Way allow you to see, by county, a dashboard of indicators of health, educational attainment, income, and civic participation. What makes this visualization particularly informative is that the user can manipulate educational attainment levels and see how changing that variable affects the other metrics.

For example, here is the first screen when Bastrop County, Texas, is selected.

Then, a pre-set scenario from the menu in the bottom left corner to “All up one educational category” was selected. Note the changes in median personal earnings, poverty rate, and unemployment rate. Users can also manipulate the orange bars under each educational attainment level on the left manually rather than selecting a pre-set scenario.

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