Good work on analysis of patterns in the federal level data for opioid prescriptions
I made some additions and comments in:
opi_prescribing_rates_fed_analysis_sharon.ipynb
Key points
make sure to round numbers both in calculations but especially when you talk about them, 2 decimal places are sufficient for means and correlations etc.
it does seem like an interesting trend that as you move more west the prescription rate increases - I think this is worthy of further exploration
I included some ideas of plotting these data using the scatter plot but with long and lat as x & y or going to geopandas to get a us statemap.
ALL for your data story one approach could be:
opioid crisis - known national issue in last decade
media coverage seems to be one factor (among others) in the decrease in prescriptions
but this decrease is not uniform - state level patterns/differences
rank of high and low states - perhaps pick a high and low (CT)
Sharon (and others)
Good work on analysis of patterns in the federal level data for opioid prescriptions
I made some additions and comments in:
opi_prescribing_rates_fed_analysis_sharon.ipynb
Key points
ALL for your data story one approach could be: