Proposal Response

[jamesturk]

Hi, we'll use this GitHub issue to discuss feedback.

First, your proposal looks good, I think this is an interesting & unique topic and it sounds like you have the data you need to begin your analysis. I look forward to seeing it.

One question I want to be sure you're thinking about is what 8-10 visualizations you'll create for your final report on this. Thinking about that now is a good idea so you can identify if there are other data sets you might need to join against, or any aggregations/etc. that would be important.

As for your questions:

1. There'll be a few options for visualizing places with highest AIAN drug deaths against relative populations you can explore. A scatterplot would be the first thing I'd at least look at, since the two are both quantitative variables and you want to see their relationship. Another option would be to normalize the data against population and show per capita numbers in a bar chart or similar. Depending on what you want to show I can also picture a bubble chart helping to provide a 3rd "dimension" to this data.
   We'll discuss other options and how to choose between them in the coming week and TAs and I are available to discuss specifics.

2. Altair's regression support would be a starting place, but again, glad to discuss in more detail if you feel that you'll need to go beyond these options: https://altair-viz.github.io/user_guide/transform/regression.html