DataWrapper is a free to use online tool for creating interactive visualizations. For inspiration, check out their River, a repository of data visualizations that you can easily adapt.
In this workshop, we will be using data from the Rhode Island Department of Health on 2017-2023 overdose death rates by race and ethnicity. The data is available below and as a downloadable .csv file within this repository: od_race_dscov.csv
| Year | Black or African American | Hispanic or Latino | White |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 38.6 | 22.1 | 30.2 |
| 2018 | 29.8 | 18.4 | 29.8 |
| 2019 | 44.6 | 20.3 | 27.6 |
| 2020 | 51.9 | 21.3 | 35 |
| 2021 | 54.3 | 25.6 | 37.9 |
| 2022 | 53.7 | 37.5 | 34.7 |
| 2023 | 47.9 | 31.8 | 35.6 |
DataWrapper accepts spatial files including GeoJSON. We will use the map_geometry.geojson file to create our basemap and will populate it with map_data.csv