Visualizing Veteran Population

A quick demographic study of veterans across the United States and New York.

Visualizing Veteran Population

A quick demographic study of veterans across the United States and New York.

The US Department of Veterans Affairs is a federal agency responsible for taking care of US military personnel after they separated from service. The VA provides healthcare, education, disability, and other benefits to US veterans. The VA also has a lot of data on US veterans available for free. There’s a bunch of spreadsheets and pivot tables on veteran population. The data is given in county format, which is good for our analysis later, but we need to aggregate the data to view it at a state level.

US Veteran Population Density in 2015

png Here is a breakdown of veteran population density across the US in 2015. We can see that most veterans live in California, Texas, and Florida.

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Jacky Lam
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Data engineer focused on analytics platforms and data products in Snowflake and dbt. Works across marketing, product, and analytics — turning messy, multi-source event streams into models teams can confidently make decisions with.

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