Data for Humanity

Understanding and Finding Solutions of Global Issues Through Data Analysis

I hear about global issues in the news. But they never caught my attention until I played with related data and realized how severe the problem was. Do you want to see what I mean by that? Here they are...

The ratio of House Prices to Income has Drastically Increased from 2020 to 2022

The above graph shows the ratio of house prices to individual income over time since 1997. The ratio of house prices to income has been...

Alex Choi

Feb 28, 20231 min read

Africa has the Highest Burdent Attributable to Hypertensive Heart Disease

Based on the data set Global Burden of Disease (GBD) cardiovascular burden estimates 1990 and 2021, related on December 12, 2022, the...

Alex Choi

Jan 23, 20231 min read

Eastern Europe and Central Asia Have the Higest Death Rate by Cardiovascular Disease

Based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) cardiovascular burden estimates between 1990 and 2021, the estimated death rates caused by...

Alex Choi

Jan 13, 20231 min read

More Price Increase in Food

The food priced at $20 in 2018 has gone up to $23.92 in 2022, which is about 20% increase, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

Alex Choi

Dec 2, 20221 min read

Has the Consumer Price Index reached the plateau?

The consumer price inflation in the US eased for a third straight month to 8.2 percent year-on-year in September 2022. Also, the annual...

Alex Choi

Nov 4, 20221 min read

High Inflation in September for Necessities

t The data shows very high inflation on necessary items such as food, utility gas, health insurance, public transportation, gasoline, and...

Alex Choi

Oct 23, 20221 min read

Students from Family with Higher Income Score Higher in SAT

Students from higher-income families tend to get higher SAT scores. And this correlation is very high. Although SAT is the most objective...

Alex Choi

Aug 20, 20221 min read

Wealth Matters in Enrolling in Highly Selective Colleges

High school students work hard for years to get into the best college. And the admission decision is based on the students, not the...

Alex Choi

Aug 10, 20221 min read

More Education Means Higher Earnings

The median weekly earnings by 8 levels of education (less than a high school diploma, high school diploma, some college with no degree,...

Alex Choi

Jul 27, 20221 min read

No Change in US Federal Minimum Wage for More than 10 Years

As the last graph on inflation showed, not a year had no inflation. In addition, inflation hiked from 2021. However, the federal minimum...

Alex Choi

Jul 19, 20221 min read

Drastic increase of inflation rates

The graph of inflation rates over the last 10 years shows how drastically inflation has increased since 2021. This inflation means the...

Alex Choi

Jul 10, 20221 min read

Minimum wage of $15 an hour is not high. It needs to be higher!

The minimum wage of $15 seems high? The inflation-adjusted graph shows that people making the minimum wage earn relatively much less...

Alex Choi

Jul 9, 20221 min read

Another Way of Looking into COVID-19 Vaccination by Country Income Groups

The vaccination rate in low-income countries is still < 20% at the end of April 2022. And that is similar to the vaccination rate of the...

Alex Choi

Jun 17, 20221 min read

Low Income Countries Still Don't Get Enough COVID-19 Vaccines

65% of the world population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Only 15.2% of people in low income countries have...

Alex Choi

Apr 23, 20221 min read

Inequality in recovering from the financial meltdown

Both the top 10% and the rest 90% had increases in median income in a similar pattern until the financial meltdown. But the recovery of...

Alex Choi

Apr 12, 20221 min read

Americans say price for gas and food are creeping up

The survey showed Americans notice the increase in prices mostly in gas and food. The increased price of necessities hit harder on...

Alex Choi

Apr 12, 20221 min read

Impact of COVAX?

The concern for the high vaccine disparity led to the establishment of COVAX, an initiative tasked with ensuring equitable access to...

Alex Choi

Dec 17, 20212 min read

Vaccine Nationalism shown in Covid-19 Booster Shot Data

Most countries that have administered Covid-19 booster shots are high-income countries. By the end of November 2021, 62 countries have...

Alex Choi

Dec 9, 20211 min read

Food Security in Households with Children

85.2 percent of households with children were food secure in 2020. Household food insecurity affected 14.8 percent of households with...

Alex Choi

Dec 1, 20211 min read

Facts about Hunger in the U.S.

More than 38 million people, including 12 million children, in the United States are food insecure. The pandemic has increased food...

Alex Choi

Dec 1, 20211 min read

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