Weekly Viz 2019-07-29

STD Infections Rates in America

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.

Makeover Monday 20190729

This week’s data is about STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) Infections Rates in America. The original dashboard could be found here. It’s a dashboard published in 2003 (the time when Tableau Public is just a thing).
As for the dataset, seeing STD infection rate going higher and higher overtime is definitely not a good sign.

My Visualization

To understand what drives the overall increase of STD infection rate, I tried to segment the rate by disease, age, and gender, also with the ability to filter on the states by clicking on the map.

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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

• The increase in STD infection rate is mainly driven by the increase in Chalmydia infection rate, especially of female;
• Also, Chalmydia is the only one of the three that we observe a very different infection rate between male and female;
• State wise, Alaska shows the highest STD infection rate, followed by Mississippi.

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