mortality

Increased maternal death in the United States

Statistical Visualization / birth, mortality, New York Times

While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the…
Americans are dying too much

Statistics / Atlantic, Derek Thompson, mortality

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against…
Black mortality gap

Infographics / Anna Flagg, mortality, race, Upshot

Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…
Dot density to show Covid-19 deaths over time

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, mortality, New York Times

The United States passed 425,000 coronavirus deaths this week. For The New York…
Lifelines

Infographics / despair, mortality, Periscopic

Using estimates from a report by the Well Being Trust and the Robert…
Covid-19, the third leading cause of death

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, mortality, Scientific American

For Scientific American, Youyou Zhou made a line chart that shows cause of…
Multiple Causes of Death

Data Underload / CDC, cherrypicking, coronavirus, mortality

There’s a 6 percent figure from the CDC that could be easily misinterpreted. Here’s what it means.
Gaps between mortality rates for black and white Americans

Statistical Visualization / gaps, Gus Wezerek, mortality, New York Times, race

For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek charted the gaps between white and black mortality…
Comparing the coronavirus to past deadly events

Infographics / coronavirus, mortality, New York Times

One way to estimate the impact of the coronavirus is to compare it…
Possible coronavirus deaths compared against other causes

Statistics / coronavirus, mortality, uncertainty, Upshot

Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the…
With terminal cancer, a patient tracks drug dose in a dashboard over her final days

Self-surveillance / dashboard, mortality

Kelly Martin died of cancer on September 30. She was able to enjoy…
Heatmap shows deaths by age in different countries

Statistical Visualization / age, mortality

This interactive heatmap by Jonas Schöley shows mortality rates by age. Just use…
Years of life lost due to breathing bad air

Infographics / environment, mortality, pollution, Washington Post

Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute estimated the number of…
Shifting Causes of Death

Data Underload / mortality

The most common causes of death changed over the years. They vary across sex and age group. This animation shows the details of these changes.
Weighing the risk of moderate alcohol consumption

Statistics / alcohol, mortality, risk

A research study on mortality and alcohol consumption is making the rounds. Its…
Life expectancy by state, against the US average

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, mortality, small multiples

FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…
Life expectancy if all diseases were magically cured

Infographics / mortality, simulation

Here’s a fun what-if simulation that imagines a world where all natural causes…
Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, mortality

Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…
Gun deaths

Infographics / FiveThirtyEight, guns, mortality

As an introduction to a series on gun deaths in America, FiveThirtyEight uses…
U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

Statistical Visualization / guns, mortality

If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…

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