A great way to visualize student debt

A great way to visualize student debt

In my visit to Georgetown this year I’ve been tasked with teaching two six-week MBA electives in the Spring. I’ve been toying with the idea of offering a data visualization course since I think it’s a skill most people would truly appreciate. In my search for topics to cover I stumbled on this pretty cool visualization of student loan debt in the US. The data is at the zip code level and there are a couple different ways to cut the data.  It’s described in great detail. Go check it out:

http://mappingstudentdebt.org/#/map-1-an-introduction