Data Visualization: High School Education

This is my assignment for Mathematics through 3D printing at George Mason University. My assignment was to create a Data Visualization of a topic that interests me. I decided to work with the data I found for high school graduation, by state, because I am pursuing a graduate degree in secondary education and wanted to take a deeper look at these statistics to better understand where key issue areas are for graduation rates in the Continental United States.

So, for this assignment I used Mathematica to create my visualization model that I will describe a little more in detail. As you can see from the picture, I used all the information available from Mathematica to help me visualize it via a state mapping. The first thing I did was to get the polygons of all the Continental United States and then I gathered all the educational data from all 48 Continental United States. I then used QuantityMagnitute to just have the numerical values. By doing this, it helped me get the numerical valu