John Norris
Category Archives: Medical Informatics
Monthly excess mortality across Oregon counties, a cartogram.
Science Advances recently published a paper, “Monthly excess mortality across counties in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic“, Eugenio Paglino et al, that looked at the number of deaths that were more than expected before and during COVID. From … Continue reading
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Preventing A Rush To Judgement
Very interesting post on Nightingale, Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse, Eli Holder December 1, 2022. Briefly, it is about how charts showing averages (means) may make it easier for the viewers biases to draw poor … Continue reading
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Oregon Health Cartogram – Depression by County
(Update Nov 28: Added disclaimer about population health veracity. This graph really is based on the OHA documents, but it has not been vetted by health experts.) My second run with the Oregon cartogram I’ve been developing with some actual data. I … Continue reading
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Oregon Health Cartogram – Chronic Cardiac Diseases by County
This is my first chance to try out the Oregon cartogram I’ve been developing with some actual data. (Update Nov 28: Added disclaimer about population health veracity. This graph really is based on the OHA documents, but it has not … Continue reading
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Cartogram of Oregon Counties
The state of Oregon’s Open Data Portal provides access and assistance to a whole number of datasets and charts. I’ve been interested in looking at the similarities and differences between counties and locations (mostly in healthcare). I’ve done a few … Continue reading
