Use the interactive chart above to see correlations between various demographic information collected by the US Census Bureau. Click on the gray axis labels to change the data shown by the bubbles in the chart. The color of the bubbles indicates how the state has voted in the past few presidential elections (red for Republican, blue for Democrat). The area of the bubble represents the relative population of each state.
By selecting different data to display and observing the resultant chart you can find many interesting correlations. For example: if you select Obesity on the left axis and Poverty on the bottom axis, you will see that there is a positive correlation between the number of people in a state that are obese and the number living in poverty. You will also observe that the states with higher levels of obesity and poverty are more likely to be states that voted for Republican presidential candidates in the past few elections.
What correlations will you discover?