Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates

Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by phil-martin on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:56PM (#28322591)

Interesting idea! I wonder if this provides additional visualisation than just a line graph with a horizontal axis of Jan-Dec. Wouldn't it show the same differences year to year?

I looked for a CSV of the data that created the chart, but I failed.

And perhaps the polar chart gives a false impression of higher values being much worse than they are, because the area is skewed so large the further out it is.

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Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by mcculley on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:46PM (#28323785)

Author here.

The CSV[0] comes from the CDC website[1] and you can find it in the code[2].

[0]: https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/xkkf-xrst/rows.csv?accessType...

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[2]: https://github.com/mcculley/ObservedDeathVisualizer/blob/mai...

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Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by mcculley on Saturday August 28, 2021 @01:38PM (#28339878)

I realized I should have anchored the line in the source code to a particular commit: https://github.com/mcculley/ObservedDeathVisualizer/blob/f29...

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Re:Visualizing observed deaths using polar coordinates by mcculley on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:49PM (#28323807)

I originally was doing this just for Florida. Because Florida generally has the most deaths during the dry, cold weeks at the end of January, it made it harder for me to see and show that trend on the horizontal chart as it wrapped across both ends.

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