Author: Chanel Feng

Title Behind Family Planning Policies A data visualization project: looking at China’s One-Child Policy in a broader sense Brief Description The data visualization project looks into the necessity and impacts of China’s One-Child Policy through comparing its trends in the birth rate, sex ratio, and fertility rate with nine other similar countries. Starting with a … Continue reading week6 Final Project Blog

This week, I read a few scholarly articles to dig into the historical reasons and process of China’s one-child policy to help me learn more about what aspects of the topic would I be interested to analyze and present. With the datasets available at hand and some literacy support, I eventually narrowed it down to … Continue reading week5 Project Iteration

1.Idea Statement China’s family planning policies, introduced in 1979 to address overpopulation concerns, have significantly shaped the country’s demographic landscape. While these policies effectively curbed rapid population growth, they have also led to challenges such as gender inequality, health risks from sterilization surgeries (e.g., infections and complications), and an aging population. Over the years, the … Continue reading week4 Project Brief

Episode3 of the Covid Tracking Project At the start of the pandemic, a popular narrative emerged portraying COVID-19 as a “great equalizer,” affecting all people regardless of wealth, power, or race. This idea gained traction through celebrities like Madonna and public figures such as Andrew Cuomo, who echoed the sentiment. However, as Ibram X. Kendi … Continue reading Week3 Podcast

Episode 2 of the Covid Tracking Project This episode sheds light on one of the main issues in collecting data: finding a central information source. During the pandemic, since the fifty states all have different health departments and protocols, it was extremely difficult for CDC to provide the up-to-date Covid data as the federal government … Continue reading Week2 Podcast & Data Viz Critique