Determining college campus diversity

Many articles are written every year on the different aspects and impacts of diversity on college campuses. Various organizations have developed metrics attempting to measure diversity. US News is a leader in providing rankings for many different categories of colleges, with diversity being one of them.

Their top 10 diverse colleges with Diversity Index are given as follows:

>> pd.read_csv('data/college_diversity.csv', index_col='School')

Getting ready

Our college dataset classifies race into nine different categories. When trying to quantify something without an obvious definition, such as diversity, it helps to start with something very simple. In this recipe...