For my data project I found a ranking of the different US States and their policies regarding LGBTQ+ rights. Many states have adopted bills in favor of protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ people, while others have been actively passing harmful ones or refusing to acknowledge that there are problems at all.
I focused in on six key aspects of human rights to correspond with the six colors of the pride flag: Employment as red, Housing as orange, Public Accommodations as yellow, Education as Green, Hate Crime Acknowledgement as blue, and Name/Gender Marker Updates as purple. Using my sources, I gave the states a score for each category scaled from 0-3, with 0 being laws seen as actively harmful or a near complete lack of support, 1 being a small mix of support but a lack in majority, 2 being supportive but still either missing rights or having remaining “bad” policies, and 3 marking an overall good acceptance in that area. The numbers correspond to the saturation of the representative color box. There are also a few states that managed to get a -1 in certain categories because not only for they ignore violations of human rights, they actively have laws in place to prevent them. In these cases there is no color at all.
Each state is shown for two seconds at a time and is displayed in alphabetical order. The program is interactive so that users can click anywhere on the screen to be able to pause, and if they hover their mouse over any of the colors they can see what it represents. I would still like t make it so the user can use a mouse wheel or trackpad to scroll through the states to find a specific one, however that has proven to be a difficult undertaking. I also would like to include more information about how I organized the information for the data, but visually that made a lot of the screen cluttered as the explanations themselves tended to be very long.
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