This map and graph were from the final project for my Advanced Chinese Linguistics course. A study found that students in Hong Kong tended to have the impression that English speakers were more wealthy and more intelligent. I found data on percentage of population by district in Hong Kong that spoke English, had a college degree (a proxy I used for the intelligence metric), and had high income based on average pay there.

The findings suggested a very strong correlation between all three variables. I created a bivariate choropleth map for the project, but the relationship between the variables was so strong, that the color ramp rarely deviated from the line that indicates a direct positive correlation.

I was invited to present this work at OSU's undergraduate poster session and the Department of East Asian Language's annual presentation series. I was one of five speakers, and I won the 2018 William Jefferson Tyler Memorial Scholarship for this work.