Congratulations to graduate students Jay Colond, Luis Ruben Gonzalez, and Waleed Rajabally, along with Professor Charlie Eaton, for their winning entry in the Dignity and Debt Student Loan Data Visualization Competition!
Visualizations can render data to make it meaningful for people around the world. Furthermore, they are able to reveal what might be either changed or strengthened through policy and individual action. To pursue the potential of visualization in helping to solve the student loan debt crisis, the VizE Lab and The Dignity+Debt Network contest called for data visualizations, maps, or short documentary films and photography that portray student loan debt.
Their submission, Student debt and the hidden racial wealth gap in federal aid formulas was one of a small number of entries selected that created evocative renderings of social data gesturing toward social change.
See their submission here.
