I really love this, excellent visualizations and explanations of each. I would be thrilled if you did a similar set of visualizations that look at “risk factors“ for mortality. I love using good visualizations for risk factors to help people understand exactly how they should prioritize their efforts not to die, at various ages.
I mean I know that a common measure of impact for charity is Quality-adjusted Life Years but I'm not sure how it's computed
Probably based on lifespan and disability rate at each age yeah
I agree that it's also flawed, I don't want to say that one death should have the same weight at all ages but I don't feel like my judgment depends on "years lost"
I guess it depends on the distress of the person's friends and relatives but good luck measuring that
Am I correct in my understanding that visualization #3 "What are the risks of dying from different causes at each age?" is essentially visualization #4 "What are people dying from at different ages?" but with a "still living" category added?
Stacked plots like #1 and #3 are pretty poor, in my opinion. The only thing you can easily read off of them is the total, which you could have gotten with a simple line plot. You can sort of get a crude sense of the breakdown of causes at a particular age, but it's hard to judge the proportions. It's really hard to judge how causes change over time; readers will miss all but the most dramatic changes. Since the only thing that is actually reliable is the top line, you're better off just to print that, and look for some other way to convey the breakdown by cause.
It's interesting to consider the messaging from "the experts" in light of this thorough analysis. I wonder if they are reviewing the tape so they perform better next time... I am not optimistic.
I really love this, excellent visualizations and explanations of each. I would be thrilled if you did a similar set of visualizations that look at “risk factors“ for mortality. I love using good visualizations for risk factors to help people understand exactly how they should prioritize their efforts not to die, at various ages.
I would love to see this as well!
Very nice graphs
I wonder how one could calculate the "number of life years lost" due to a particular cause of death, if it's even a coherent concept
I feel like it would match the idea of the "seriousness" or "importance" of a particular danger relatively well
Ohhh interesting how would you estimate this? Based on average life span? I feel like that metric in itself is quite flawed. Or something else?
I mean I know that a common measure of impact for charity is Quality-adjusted Life Years but I'm not sure how it's computed
Probably based on lifespan and disability rate at each age yeah
I agree that it's also flawed, I don't want to say that one death should have the same weight at all ages but I don't feel like my judgment depends on "years lost"
I guess it depends on the distress of the person's friends and relatives but good luck measuring that
I really liked the flow of this article. Very intuitive. Thank you for sharing.
Am I correct in my understanding that visualization #3 "What are the risks of dying from different causes at each age?" is essentially visualization #4 "What are people dying from at different ages?" but with a "still living" category added?
Stacked plots like #1 and #3 are pretty poor, in my opinion. The only thing you can easily read off of them is the total, which you could have gotten with a simple line plot. You can sort of get a crude sense of the breakdown of causes at a particular age, but it's hard to judge the proportions. It's really hard to judge how causes change over time; readers will miss all but the most dramatic changes. Since the only thing that is actually reliable is the top line, you're better off just to print that, and look for some other way to convey the breakdown by cause.
It's interesting to consider the messaging from "the experts" in light of this thorough analysis. I wonder if they are reviewing the tape so they perform better next time... I am not optimistic.