Pay varies from state to state, but cost of living doesn’t explain it all.
A data set can many different stories. It just depends on how you slice it.
With this project, we set out to let readers control the story. I cleaned the data, set up the structure, made adjustments for cost of living, made mockups for the story structure, and wrote the story mad-libs style. My colleague did the difficult part of creating the front and back end.