Catarina Moura Data Sketch 2

Number of cases and deaths by Enthnicity in New Mexico

Pitch 

There’s a few things I’d want to look into in terms of number of cases and number of deaths by ethnicity in New Mexico. I would want to understand, first of all, why about a third of all cases (both in the state and the US overall) are unknown. For this I would get in contact with the Department of Health and try to understand how they’re collecting their data. And then I would like to look into something else. In the US 18.5% of the population identifies as Hispanic or Latino, according to the US Census Bereau. That number is 49.3% in New Mexico. There’s a big contrast in the overall US numbers in terms of Hispanic cases (more than a third), but in New Mexico, the percentage of Hispanic cases is actually lower than the percentage of Hispanic residents. I would want to understand why New Mexico apparently doesn’t follow what seems to be the overall trend in the US, when it comes to the relation between population vs. number of cases.

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