Visualizing Earnings Based on College Majors

This project is a demonstration on using the plotting tools built into pandas to explore data on job outcomes for recent college graduates. Using visualizations, we can start to explore questions from the data set like:

  • Do students in more popular majors make more money?
  • Using scatter plots
  • How many majors are predominantly male? Predominantly female?
  • Using histograms
  • Which category of majors have the most students?
  • Using bar plots

The data released by American Community Survey and cleaned by FiveThirtyEight can be found here.