Language Data

Language Data is a short video on language loss made for 1-week data visualization project. Read about our reserach and data analysis here.

Overview

Linguists have noticed a strange phenomenon dubbed third generation shift. Most immigrant groups switch to using English as their primary language by the 3rd generation. We found an interesting dataset that covers three generations of multiple Asian and Hispanic ethnicities and their language proficiency in various U.S. cities. We explored this dataset in order to compare and contrast language shift in Asian and Hispanic populations.

Although Asian immigrants had higher English Only scores than Hispanic immigrants in every generation, if one investigates how all the ethnicities within these broad categories, they will find that the trends within the groups vary greatly.

In conclusion, Asian and Hispanic are broad categories that fit very different and diverse cultures within them. To understand the third generation shift, one must look at individual ethnicities rather than these broad labels.

Losing your language is sad

The video above was created as a part of a 1-week project for my Psychology Senior Seminar: Storytelling with Data. All video content was created by me. The content of this video was informed by out data analysis, which can be found here.