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Here's how you're probably going to die - in a stunning visualisation
Data expert Nathan Yau has created this beautiful interactive tool letting you find out how you are most likely to die based on your sex, race, and age.
Using information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, data expert Nathan Yau has created a beautifully designed, if rather sobering, visualisation detailing when and how you are most likely to die based on your sex, race, and age.
Yau's simulation uses data drawn from the death certificates of people who died in the United States between 1999 and 2014 (so it'll be most relevant to readers in the US, although it's still morbidly fascinating for the rest of us.)
On the Flowing Data website he explains how it works: "Enter your sex, race, and age. Each dot represents one of your simulated lives, and as each year passes, more of your simulated selves pass away. Color corresponds to cause of death, and the bars on the right keep track of the cumulative percentages."
"By the end, you're left with the chances that you will die of each cause.Try shifting age down to zero and watch the rate of change. One thing that you should notice is that once you get past year one, it's low likelihood that you die in the next few decades. It's not until later years when the dots start to change color much quicker. You couldn't see this in the normalized chart.
• Life-expectancy for British women is the second lowest in western Europe
"The main point, which is what you'd expect, is that mortality rate is much lower in the earlier years of life than in the older years. But, if you do die at a younger age, it's much more likely due to something external rather than a disease."
"You can also look at it the other way. Shift age to the older years, and let the simulations run. You're much more likely to die of a disease rather than something external. Shift past 80 years, and it's over 40 percent chance the cause will be circulatory, regardless of demographic group.
"This surprised me, because it seems like cancer would be the leading cause just going off general news. This is certainly true up to a certain age, but get past that and your heart can only keep going for so long."
• Mapped: The world according to life expectancy
Yau, who has a PHD in statistics from UCLA, aims to "make data available and useful to those who are and aren't necessarily data experts." He has a growing reputation for building beautiful, easily-understandable visualisations of complex sets information, including: Mapping the Most Common Races in the US; A Day in the Life of Americans; and Most Common Use of Time, By Age and Sex.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12108615/Heres-how-youre-probably-going-to-die-in-a-stunning-visualisation.html
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