For my final project I have chosen to investigate the number of people who have moved on to high education in Omaha, Nebraska. A recent QGIS project I completed about mortgages and loaning companies made me interested in looking at the education levels of. those individuals and comparing the two maps. The scope of my project will be looking at Omaha from 1920 to 2020, in order to receive a wide, but manageable, set of data. The possible sources of data for my project will consist mostly of digital maps and online data. I will be doing research into the typical education of the 1920s and how that has obviously changed when approaching 2020. I will also take into consideration the gender gap and the financial burden of going to school.
My final project will be displayed in a story map format because I feel this is the best way to display the different maps while giving context around and about them. This project will not only show that higher interest rates where given out to communities with typically more of a minority population, as well as those individuals who live in more affluent neighborhoods received higher education from schools with better resources. I feel as though the comparison of these maps will paint a clear and concise point about the red lining that took place in Omaha 100 years ago, but as well as the discrimination and segregation of minority communities.
The general approach seems sound. I’m skeptical you’ll be able to find data that easily on higher education, though the census might track SOME of this data in recent years. Do you have an idea about where this data will be?
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