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A Correlation Between Poverty and Physical Activity?

In this Data Driver Document(D3), We explore certain associations between demographic and behavioral risk factors using survey data collected from the U.S Census Bureau's American Community Survey(ACS) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System(BRFSS) during the year of 2014. Each marker represents an individual state in United States.



There seems to be a correlation between the percentage of poverty and physically active. As the percentage in poverty increases, the percentage in physically active decreases. It is interesting to see how the state of Puerto Rico is getting clustered-out from the inland states in North America.

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