Data visualizations can be helpful to see differences and trends in data that might not be visible when looking at the raw numbers.

In this activity, we are going to create a data visualization to better understand voter registration data in the United States.

To start, we are going to look at registration data for the United States as a whole. Here is some data about the percent of U.S citizens that were registered to vote as a percent of all eligible voters by demographic from the Kaiser Family Foundation:

Plug this data into the chart generator tool to create a data visualization. The X Axis Categories on your graph should be “Location”, and the X Axis value will be “United States”. Each data set will correspond to a racial demographic. You will need to add a few columns in order to get all of the demographic data added to the graph.

Once the graph is created, consider the following questions:

1. Which of the demographics have a higher percentage of registered voters than the national average? Which have a lower percentage?
2. What factors do you think contribute to the differences in voter registration between demographic groups?
3. Do you think voter registration in the United States is higher than you expected or lower? Why or why not?
4. What solutions can you think of to increase voter registration in America?