{"id":629,"date":"2021-08-30T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/?p=629"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:57:09","slug":"data-sketch-student-loans-vs-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3200-a21\/cpdolan\/data-sketch-student-loans-vs-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Sketch – Student Loans vs Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my data sketch, I chose to focus on the amount of student loans that the average person has, an issue that most to all of us in this class can relate to. For almost the past twenty years, the average student loans that a person has have exceeded the rate of inflation, and as of 2017 (the last data point I used for my sketch), the average student loan amount is almost double the inflation rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my sketch, the blue circles represent the average student loan amount and the red circles represent the inflation rate between the years 2003 and 2017, where each set of circles represents another two years. In 2003, the two data points were almost exactly the same. Over time, inflation has increased at a roughly linear rate, and compared to the exponential rate of student loan amounts, it looks like inflation has barely changed at all. Below is the graph I used as a reference to get my data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My question is: How can I make my sketch look more aesthetically appealing? I feel like mine gets the point across but looks very plain and repetitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my data sketch, I chose to focus on the amount of student loans that the average person has, an issue that most to all of us in this class can relate to. For almost the past twenty years, the average student loans that a person has have exceeded the rate of inflation, and as… <\/p>\n

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