Health InfoScape

When you have heartburn, do you also feel nauseous? Or if you're experiencing insomnia, do you tend to put on a few pounds, or more? By combing through 7.2 million of our electronic medical records, we have created a disease network to help illustrate relationships between various conditions and how common those connections are. Take a look by condition or condition category and gender to uncover interesting associations. About this data The information used for this visualization is based on 7.2 million patient records from GE's proprietary database, and represents some of the conditions that commonly affect Americans today. Share Downloads Download Application Design Partner MIT SENSEable City Lab

Onco Health Coaching 1. Learn about your health Dealing with cancer may wear you out. Healthy lifestyle can help you stay more fit throughout the process. Better eating, physical activity, sleeping and relaxing techniques can help you cope better. 2. What you do today matters. 3. Please find a health coach that works for you. 4. Even though cancer is actually a family of over 200 different diseases, over the past decade several generic biomarkers for cancer have been discovered. The Unknown Killer Many people enter into a hospital for one reason, but end up staying there for another – Healthcare Associated Infections. HAIs take more lives than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. It is important to recognize this hidden killer so that steps can be taken to reduce its impact. About this data The data used in this visualization is sourced from Estimating HAIs and Deaths in U.S. Share Downloads Download Image Design Partner

TRANS The Fight Against Breast Cancer In honor of National Women's Health Week, we're taking a look at how countries around the world are stacking up in the fight against breast cancer. Specifically, we looked at rates of mammography screening, mortality rates per 100,000 women and relative 5 year survival rates. About this data The data highlighted here is from the OECD's fifth edition of Health at a Glance. Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries. Share Downloads Download Image Design Partner A collaboration between GOOD and Thomas Porostocky

IMOS OceanCurrent Visualizing Sandy: An Interview with Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg Wind Map by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg All the way in blissfully sunny Los Angeles during the throes of Hurricane Sandy, I watched with growing anxiety as friends and family rode out the storm. I found myself unsatisfied by personal accounts of empty supermarket shelves and mass media coverage of FEMA efforts and felt I needed better awareness of what was happening in empirical, but also meaningful terms. As it turns out, I wasn't alone — cue the Wind Project, from artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. Wattenberg, trained as a mathematician, is also known for his work on number of classic digital art projects like the Shape of Song, The Apartment, and Whitney Artport's Idea Line, as well as Rhizome's StarryNight. Their latest project is "a living portrait of the wind currents over the United States" using data pulled hourly from the National Digital Forecast Database. Were you surprised by the reaction to the wind map in the days leading up to Hurricane Sandy?