To investigate the uptick in book banning across the United States, this Plotly/Dash visualization tool will allow you to easily examine book ban metrics with state education scores, school demographics and funding, as well as locating public libraries across the US.
- Banned Books dataset from Center for Data Innovation (https://datainnovation.org/2022/07/tracking-banned-books/)
- US Census dataset from Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/muonneutrino/us-census-demographic-data?select=acs2015_county_data.csv)
- Public Library dataset from Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/imls/public-libraries)
- US states geoJson file from GitHub (https://github.com/PublicaMundi/MappingAPI/blob/master/data/geojson/us-states.json)
- State code and name dictionary from Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jonbown/state-code)
- Clone repository
- Open repository in your terminal
- Execute "jupyter-lab" command
- Open jupyter notebook in jupyter-lab
- Run entire kernal
- Open link: http://127.0.0.1:8050/
- Explore the dashboard