{"id":613,"date":"2021-08-30T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/?p=613"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:36:33","slug":"data-sketch-lgbtq-rights-across-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/skgardner\/data-sketch-lgbtq-rights-across-the-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Sketch – LGBTQ+ Rights Across the States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my data sketch I found 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the purposes of the sketch, I demonstrated two states: Massachusetts and Florida. Massachusetts by and large has legislation in place to protect against discrimination on the basis of orientation as well as gender in employment, has anti-bullying laws and laws to address LGBTQ+ struggles in education, and allows the update of name and gender markers on multiple forms of legal documentation. Florida, on the other hand, has some laws against discrimination in the workplace, but are limited, and updates to driver’s licenses, but lacks laws that de-criminalize HIV\/AIDS, anti-bullying laws, and generally allows the denial of healthcare to LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


In possible future iterations I would incorporate other states, but I’m having trouble figuring out how to better automate that instead of manually inputting values. I’m also thinking about better incorporating and utilizing the third dimension available in Max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.hrc.org\/resources\/state-scorecards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/HRC-SEI20-report-Update-022321-FInal.pdf?mtime=20210322114743&focal=none<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Question: I know that I will need to add text to the sketch, but are there any other visual signifiers I could be using to represent the information I am trying to show? Is the saturation of color enough to show impact or is there another way I could show the disparity between states?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my data sketch I found 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 have focused in on… <\/p>\n

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