Created by Adedamola Ladipo
This interactive dashboard visualization shows an analysis of food apartheid in Washington DC by neighborhood cluster. Unlike the more commonly used term "food desert" food apartheid looks at the whole food system by taking into account income, race, and geography and how it impacts social and racial inequalities. The term food desert also leaves out the important social inequalities that exist in food access. Overall, food apartheid shows that the systems in place are what make it difficult for people of color and people living in low-income areas to access fresh and healthy food.
Specifically, the visualization includes four analysis areas of Race and Stores, Race and Income, Stores and Income, and geography, all analyzed by neighborhood clusters. Race and Stores compare the proportion of black people to the grocery stores and farmers markets per capita. Race and Income show the proportion of black people to median household (HH) Income. Stores and Income shows the grocery stores and farmers markets per capita compared to median HH income. And geography shows the location of every grocery store and farmers market with a 0.5-mile radius (standard distance for 100+ HHs in an urban area to access fresh food), the population, and the location of every DC metro station, for geographic context.
Describe process of creating work: Data was collected through various sources including Open Data DC, ArcGIS, Greater DC, DC Fiscal Policy Institute, DC School Reform, and Investopia. Data cleaning and analysis was done in google sheets and additional calculations to make the values for the bivariate map legend was done in Tableau calculated fields. The dashboard was created using Tableau.
Two articles were also used for research:
