Draft an evaluation plan explaining the argument of your final project, the intellectual and practical justifications for your choices, and how you will evaluate your work. This plan should be at least 200 words.
Over the course of this class, I have been analyzing data on obesity trends in the United States. Nutrition and health is very personal to me as someone who has struggled with eating healthy, non-processed foods due to unhealthier processed foods being the more convenient and cheaper option during my childhood. My argument for my final project is that socioeconomic status and education play a major role in obesity rates in the United States.
The justification for this is that being wealthy often enables people to have more control over the food they choose to purchase and eat, and education enables people to make more informed choices about their food. Education and particularly food nutrition education teaches people about the differences between processed and non-processed foods, as well as what foods they should prioritize in their diet. I made this reasoning after analyzing several datasets over the course of this class, and due to sources I found online (which I am including below).
I will evaluate my argument using Python libraries, Data Wrapper, and Tableau. I will also analyze ways that the United States can fix their obesity epidemic from data online and from analysis on successful (and unsuccessful) countries that have improved or maintained their obesity rates.
Sources:
https://www.who.int/activities/controlling-the-global-obesity-epidemic
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/spittman1248/cdc-data-nutrition-physical-activity-obesity
https://ncdrisc.org/data-downloads-adiposity.html
https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/php/data-research/adult-obesity-prevalence-maps.html
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/php/data-research/adult-obesity-facts.html
https://wallethub.com/edu/fattest-cities-in-america/10532
Datasets:
https://www.cdc.gov/dnpao-state-local-programs/php/data-statistics/health-equity.html
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/amanarora/obesity-among-adults-by-country-19752016