I am a fourth year Biology major at UCLA. My interests lie mostly in the healthcare industry and accessibility to health services. My advocacy for medical accessibility resulted from my volunteering as a Spanish interpreter for local Santa Monica clinics. That opportunity allowed me to understand how many people unfortunately lack access to basic medical services that would greatly improve their livelihood.
Application of structural elements, including loops, dictionaries, if statements, etc, in research. Creation of a project in the humanities and social sciences to showcase management and visual representations of data sets.
The project I am interested in conducting is in the topic of health care and accessibility. For this project, I will create a map and add a pin in the respective coordinates for each clinic in Los Angeles county. In the same map I will use a gradient of colors to depict the median household income of each zip code within the Los Angeles county area. The map with these two data sets will create an image of what the distribution of clinics is compared to the income of an area.
My objectives for this class are:
- Understand the basics of coding and how to visualize specific data sets
- Learn how to select and clean data sets
- Learn to use maps as a strategy to depict data