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MTA debt & fares #260

Closed mercye closed 7 years ago

mercye commented 8 years ago

Pitch number: #186

Data sources MTA outstanding debts Historical Inflation Rate NY Dept of Labor MTA fare

Summary Looking at the relationship between mta debts, the rise in minimum wage, and the price of transit

Data Requests -- if i can find data, i would like to add info about the increase in fines/summonses.

Possible Headlines still, working here...

Images inf_minwage_30day_norm inf_minwage_singleride_norm minwage_30day minwage_singlefare minwage-single-ride-two-axes_pctch minwage-single-ride-two-axes mtadebt_30day singlefare_pct_minwage thirty-day-debt-two-axes_pctch thirty-day-debt-two-axes

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barjacks commented 8 years ago

Really great idea, to map this out. You have so many graphs, I find it a little overwhelming at first. Spending a little time with them, I find the two charts "Single Ride Fair as percentage of minimum wage", "30 days pass and MTA debt" the most interesting. There clearly seems to be a relation between price rises and the MTA debt. (Is there? Why?) And you clearly show that fairs are rising for people around the minimum wage bracket. I would definitely start you story off with this chart.

gcgruen commented 8 years ago

Wow, so many line graphs! I like the scope of this topic, because I think it is very accessible for users as they can easily relate to it (similar as with your clothes project!).

I would kind of agree with Barney though that it is a bit overwhelming. Maybe choose two graphics with the strongest story? Or maybe having explicit headlines with each also helps.

I think it's an important thing to take inflation into account, however I was thinking whether there's a way to calculate the fares normalized by inflation (especially since fares and inflation at least look unrelated), so that you don't need to plot it separately (and thereby reduce complexity a little bit?).

mercye commented 8 years ago

@barjacks @gcgruen i too am overwhelmed! lol. i made a lot of these just to see where the most interesting relationship happened. Thank you for pointing out which graphs seemed most important to you -- that really helps me zoom in on what the "story" is. also, all of the numbers are adjusted for inflation already, so maybe i don't need to show inflation at all in the graphs?