Weekly Viz 2018-04-16

Zambia Southern Province Confirmed Malaria Cases

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

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This week’s dateset is about the Zambia Southern Province Confirmed Malaria Cases. The data could be found here. Please note that this is a simulated data from http://visualizenomalaria.org, and please contact jdrummey@path.org for data question. Climate change has raised a lot of concern nowadays, but this is the first time that I have actually worked on a climate change related time series data. The original visualization is simple, and clearly shows the seasonality of Malaria outbreak, and the overall decreasing trend.

My Visualization

Again, for this time series data, I tried to explore the data with two dimensions - yearly and monthly.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• Sinazongwe has been the district with most Malaria outbreaks throughout the years; Gwembe and Siavonga are also almost along the top 4; Namwala is a district we have seen continuous decrease in Malaria outbreaks;
• It’s good to see that overall, the number of Malaria outbreaks has been decreasing over time;
• March to May is the time period that seen most Malaria outbreaks, and also the deviation of cases amount among all the districts is the highest during these period.

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