LibGuides: Health Statistics: Data Visualization

Data Visualization

Cancer Today - IARC
Data visualization tools that present current national estimates of cancer incidence, mortality, & prevalence.
Chronic Disease GIS Exchange (CDC)
an on-line forum for public health professionals and community leaders to learn and share techniques for using GIS to enhance chronic disease prevention and treatment.
Commonwealth Fund
Interactive maps & data, including information on the ACA.
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
Documents variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States, using Medicare data.
Epi-Info
Provides easy form and database construction, data entry, and analysis with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs.
Gapminder: for a fact-based world view
Displays various statistics about global indicators and the world's countries, such as "Is child mortality falling?" & the health & wealth of nations.

Census.gov Data Visualization
Gallery of US census data visualizations, from shifting occupations to Hispanic population by origin.
FlowingData
A blog that explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, & others use analysis, visualization, & exploration to understand data & ourselves.
Google Public Data Explorer
Makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize, and communicate. As charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand.

American FactFinder
Includes 2000, 2010 Census data along with American Community Survey data back to 2005. Data for population, housing, income, economic and geographic data and mapping tool. Geographic level varies by data but most have shapes down to census tract level.