For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with California Labor Force Participation by Age Group (Calif Open Data)
I decided to work with this dataset because I think workspace participation is an interesting topic especially as inflation and rising costs will make retiring harder and harder, and more people now than ever are working at older ages.
In my visualization, the data is represented as lines where the higher the line is the higher percentage of people in that age range is working
Each Color is a different age range
Blue is Age 16-19
Red is Age 20-24
Magenta is Age 25-34
Orange is Age 35-44
Brown is Age 45-54
Purple is Age 55-64
Black is Age 65+
To interact with the visualization, try clicking and you will see the graph continue to develope and show a larger time range.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is a lot of the middle aged work groups were more stable and not as fluctuating compared to other age groups like teens (Age 16-19), young adults(Age 20-24), and near retirement people(Age 55-64).
Something I still wonder about is how would this date look if it started at a earlier point like in the 90s or early 2000s instead of 2008.
The most challenging moment of this project was adding the click mechanic and making it so that the for loop would expand every time you click
If I had more time, I would like to make it easier to see the exact values of each point such as hovering over it would show the exact statistics of that point.