Data Visualization VizHealth
VizHealth Data Visualizations
VizHealth
VizHealth is a project website designed to visualize and make health risk information simpler for people to comprehend and understand. The website provides clear and effective visuals and tested ways to provide medical and public health data. VizHealth offers open-source icons and graphics, but the two we will be focusing on are the Risk Calculator and the Icon Array Generator.
Risk Calculator
The Risk Calculator is an input generator that allows you to enter demographic and health data, for example age, gender and other possible risk factors). Once the data has been entered, it processes a visual representation of the possible health risks that could occur, based on the data you've entered. The purpose of the calculator is to portray a visual percentage of risk rather than just being shown or told a number. The visuals help put the number into context where it is better viewed and understood.
The Icon Array Generator creates a visual that demonstrates statistical risks or benefits, in a grid-like way in order to make it easier to those reading. Once you enter a number or percentage for example like 1 out of 10 or 20 out of 100, the generator creates a grid of icons and a portion of the icons are highlighted to whatever color you desire in order to represent those "at risk." Those that are not highlighted represent the not affected. This generator is mostly used for visualizing probabilities and making a more interactive way to deal with health statistics. Below is my example of using the Icon Generator with the percentage of Women Dying Due to Breast Cancer.
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