Getting Started With the Lab
The Racial Equity Data Lab is a space for community leaders to combine their own expertise on their community’s experiences, assets, and needs with the deeply disaggregated data in the Atlas using Tableau Public, a free web-based data visualization tool. In the Lab you can:
1. Download Tableau
Visit our Using Tableau page to download Tableau Public.
2. Create Your Own $15/hour Viz
Download our starter viz workbook to create and customize a $15/hour viz (link) for your community. The Starter Viz Guide provides guidance on how to select your geography, customize the elements of the $15/hour data viz, explore the data, and incorporate your own expertise on why a $15/hour minimum wage matters for racial equity in your community.
3. Access Data
Access our Tableau-ready data sets to download Tableau workbooks for Atlas indicator. The Housing Burden starter workbook and Median Wages starter workbook include built-in features such as example charts, filters, and parameters to allow users to explore the data by year, geography, race, sex, nativity, and ancestry.
4. Design Your Own Data Visualizations
Use best practices to create a data visualization that illustrates key data points, identifies underlying causes and drivers of inequity, and lifts up powerful equity solutions.
5. Explore Equity Data Visualizations
Explore our Gallery page to view other racial equity data visualizations built through the Lab.