Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized

Re:Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized by pawn on Monday October 28, 2013 @07:54PM (#6630719)

This is a fascinating tool you've put together. One can look at all sorts of interesting contrasts and/or patterns from it.

One that I found interesting is that Washington and Florida have among the lowest rates for the flu, on complete opposite corners of the map and with what most would say are very different climates.

I was also surprised that the flu kills more per 100,000 than alcohol, firearms, or vehicles. It doesn't seem to get the press that those others do.

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Re:Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized by matthewisabel on Monday October 28, 2013 @08:07PM (#6630797)

It should say influenza and pneumonia for that label. I just realized that error. That number sounds more appropriate that label. Adjusting now.

Update: Fixed.

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Re:Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized by ekianjo on Monday October 28, 2013 @09:01PM (#6631077)

What tool did you use to generate these maps?

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Re:Show HN: Mortality Rates in the US Visualized by matthewisabel on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @01:29AM (#6632204)

D3.js and a bit of jQuery. I really designed as I built. When I clean it up and add some other data it'll probably be a good place to use Backbone.

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