Health Numbers in Context

August 26th, 2009

As a continuation of this project, we’ve just finished a second health visualization using GE’s data. Like the first round, we started with ~6 million patient records from their “MQIC” database. Using the software, you input gender, age range, height/weight (to calculate BMI), and smoking status. Based on the selections it shows you the number of people in the database that match those settings, and the percentages that have been diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, or have had a stroke:

your health visualizer

(More background on how the piece was created can be found here.)

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