Death From Alcoholism

Mike Bostock has written upward a smashing introduction into the unlike methods that y'all tin dismiss role to compare the departure betwixt ii unlike values inwards a mapped information visualization. To illustrate the methods of comparing he has used Deaths from Alcohol Use Disorders inwards 1980 together with 2014. To illustrate the departure inwards the issue of deaths from alcohol betwixt these ii dates he has created a serial of interactive maps, each of which uses a unlike method to visualize the same data.

Methods of Comparison, Compared is published on Observable, Mike's platform for exploratory information analysis. Observable is non entirely a platform for information analysis, visualization, together with exploration. It is too a platform for didactics together with sharing techniques inwards coding together with creating improve information visualization. 'Methods of Comparison, Compared' is a smashing illustration of this, equally it non entirely includes a issue of interactive choropleth maps simply too explores together with explains the methodology used inwards their creation.

In comparing the alter inwards the issue alcohol related deaths inwards each U.S.A. county betwixt 1980 together with 2014 it is possible to role a issue of unlike methods. 'Methods of Comparison, Compared' shows iii unlike choropleth maps, each of which uses a unlike method. These are a map showing the uncomplicated departure inwards the issue of deaths betwixt the ii dates, a bit map which shows the relative alter together with a 3rd map which shows the ratio.

Each method results inwards a unlike mapped visualization of the same data. Each method has its ain advantages together with disadvantages.