Weekly Viz 2020-07-06

Comparing Common Mental Disorder by Sex

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 20200706

This week’s dataset is on mental health. Though the dataset itself is talking about how frequent the mental disorder is by age and gender, the original article actually carries much more info to help people understand the scale of mental health problem. It is pretty insightful, and I am suprised on how big a problem it is.

My Visualization

Since we have two dimension – age and gender, to show the trend of % of people with mental disorder symptoms across age groups and the differece between men and women, I used grantt chart this week.

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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

• Among all age groups, female seems to be much more prone to mental disorder than male – though in the article it also mentions that men has higher suicide rate;
• Generally speaking, older age groups have lower proportion of people with mental disorder symptoms – well, but I have to say that there is some sampling bias since people who lived to 75+ may be less likely to have experienced mental disorder;
• One very weird age group is the group 16-24 – men show much lower mental disorder proportion at this age, but women show very very high percentage – my personal assumption is about the pressure women getting from the society at this age (from the society as they start career and even marriage).

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