taylorsyde / USA-Life-Expectancy

A visualization of life expectancy in the USA.

Life Expectancy Across the United States

This visualization was created as part of a larger collaborative analysis of life expectancy.

Overview

This interactive visualization shows the average change in life expectancy from 1985 - 2010 in each county.

Overall US Life Expectancy

• Both genders life expectancy increased
• Increase in males by 5.2 years, females had an increase of 3 years.

Conclusion/ Findings

• Moving from the southwest to the northeast could add almost 2 years to your life.
• While both life expectancy and physical activity increased, obesity also increased nationwide.
• Don’t move to Oklahoma.

Data Limitations

• Life Expectancy data was from 1985- 2010

Future Improvements

• Invert colors to show red as areas of low growth and blue as areas of high growth.
• Color key with vaules.
• Smaller data point radius for great resolution when zooming into targeted areas

Sources

(http://www.healthdata.org/) (https://simplemaps.com/data/us-counties)

Final Presentation

(https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QjBsSOIbkLeH1M9UeD2AW_zI5XcNzgZ_HP-N9yrk7sI/edit?usp=sharing)