Monthly #ProjectHealthViz data sets
2023
June – Funding for Research for Various Conditions and Diseases
May – WHO’s Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities – A collaboration with Viz for Social Good (VFSG)
April – The Lown Institute Hospital Index on Equity – A collaboration with Back 2 Viz Basics (B2VB)! This month’s challenge is to make an interactive ranking table. Be sure to submit your viz to both the #ProjectHealthViz tracker as well as the #B2VB one.
March – Impact of Endometriosis on in Vitro Fertilization Outcomes – Data set from a research paper and aims to highlight the invisible struggle many women with endometriosis face when trying to get pregnant. March is Women’s History Month and it’s important to bring awareness to fertility struggles and the huge hurdles women and their partners go through in hopes of having a family.
February – No data
January – Medicaid Drug Spending 2020
2022
September/October/November/December – No data
August – Mental Health Care Professionals Shortages – Visualize data obtained from the Kaiser Foundation (originally from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)) regarding the number of Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations in each state. HPSA’s are used to identify areas and population groups within the United States that are experiencing a shortage of health professionals.
July – Rural Hospital Closures (updated data) – In February 2019, this data set was featured and my viz actually ended up a VOTD. Now that 3 more years have passed, I’ve updated the data set to visualize.
June – Monthly Cannabis Exposures – Visualize monthly data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers exploring the changing case numbers over the years between Cannabidiol (CBD) and Synthetic Cannabinoid exposures.
February/March/April/May – No data. Personal hiatus.
January – One Year of Sleep – Visualize my sleep data! This data set is part of my “Visualize Someone” series, meant to provide you with data on an actual individual. For this month, this data is meant to help you think about time series data and, while this is my sleep data, you are welcome to use your own if you have it or use this data to think about ways you may want to visualize your own data in the future.
2021
December – Trends in Youth Sports – Extra challenge: Make a mobile friendly design.
October/November – No data. Personal hiatus.
September – Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches – Extra challenge: Do some research to add some contextual information (text, annotations, description, links, etc) to help your user understand the data.
June/July/August – No data sets for the summer
May – Registered Nursing Labor Stats (1998-2020) – Extra challenge: Draw inspiration from someone else’s viz and be sure to note them in your published visualization!
April – Quantified Self – There is no official data set this month since the data is all about YOU! We do quantified self data twice a year. You can utilize data you may already have available such as perhaps from an application such as fitness, food tracker, sleep, medication, etc. or if you don’t, then take 2 weeks to keep track of something (maybe what time you shower, how often you have a drink or go to the bathroom, how long you run, your daily moods or thoughts, what triggers you to yell, types of conversations you have, etc. – anything related to health) and then visualize it. Extra challenge: Use only two colors in your visualization (not including black and white).
March – Adaptive Sports – Includes three possible data sets: UK Paralympics, Paralympics Historical, Wheelchair Marathon Winners. This month is a collaboration between #DiversityinData, #SportsVizSunday, and #ProjectHealthViz – please be sure to enter into all three submission trackers. Extra challenge: Use parameter or set actions (in Tableau), or a feature you have never used before.
February – UK Hospital Admissions for Youth <18 (2016-2018) – Extra challenge: Use a custom image for the title (create in tool of your choice – PowerPoint, Figma, Canva, Illustrator, etc.) and a custom button, shape, or background image.
January – NHS Admitted Patient Care Activity: Main Specialty (2019-2020) – Extra challenge: Design dashboard for a C-Suite executive as the end user.
2020
December – Cannabis Strains and Features
November – How Common is Each Myer’s Briggs Personality
October – Australian Breast Cancer Screening, COVID Impact
September – Conditions Contributing to COVID Deaths
August – Global Emissions by Sector
July – AAPCC Poison Exposures by Age
June – Geography of Social Capital in America
May – Teladoc 5-Year Stock Prices
April – Human Development Index
March – Coronavirus Daily Counts
February – WHO Access to Basic Sanitation
January – Mental Health in Prisons and Jail
2019
December – Subsaharan Africa Healthcare Facilities
November – Men’s Prostate Cancer Trends (Movember)
October – Autism Spectrum Disorder CDC/ADDM 2014
September – Alcohol Use and Burden (compiled by Anna Dzikowska)
August – OECD International Healthcare Spending
July – Baby Alice’s Treatment Costs (courtesy of Rodrigo Calloni)
June – Celiac Disease Symptoms and Disorders
May – WHO Global Tobacco Consumption
April – EuroStat European Disease Prevalence
March – Global Measles Cases
February – US Rural Hospital Closures
January – CT Drug Deaths 2012-2017
2018
December – US Social Security Number of Births
November – CDC US National Outbreaks
October – Adolescent Pregnancy Rates by Race
September – Medicaid HEDIS Measures
August – Medicare Coverage Gaps
July – CDC 2016 Fatalities
June – WHO Causes of Child Mortality
May – US State Mental Illness Percents
#ProjectHealthVIz started in May 2018! Thanks for coming along for this journey of mine and I hope these datasets are useful!
Cheers,
Lindsay
