{"id":2,"date":"2017-11-16T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:13:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this site, which was created as a class project by students in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/\">New Media Writing at Emory University in Fall 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are\u00a0intrigued by the raw data presented on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equality-of-opportunity.org\/college\/\">role of colleges with regard to\u00a0social mobility<\/a>\u00a0in the United States by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equality-of-opportunity.org\/\">Equality of Opportunity Project<\/a>. We\u00a0read Dylan Matthews\u2019 analysis \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/2\/28\/14359140\/chetty-friedman-college-mobility\">These colleges are better than Harvard at making poor kids rich<\/a>\u201d in Vox and spent some time with the data visualizations by Gregor Aisch, Larry Buchanan, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy in the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/01\/18\/upshot\/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html\">Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent\u00a0Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, there were few really clearcut patterns presented by this data. Our task was, in the space of the final few weeks of the semester, to\u00a0analyze the raw data ourselves using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tableau.com\/\">Tableau<\/a>\u00a0and other tools and to create this website as a first step towards mediating between the complex research resources presented by the Equality of Opportunity Project and a more general audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this site, which was created as a class project by students in\u00a0New Media Writing at Emory University in Fall 2017. We are\u00a0intrigued by the raw data presented on the\u00a0role of colleges with regard to\u00a0social mobility\u00a0in the United States by the\u00a0Equality of Opportunity Project. We\u00a0read Dylan Matthews\u2019 analysis \u201cThese colleges are better than Harvard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng221f17.davidmorgen.org\/eoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}