This readme file was generated on 2024-03-14 by Mary Catherine (Cat) Ellis
Name: Mary Catherine Ellis
ORCID: 0000-0002-8578-3256
Institution: San Diego State University
Address: 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182
Email: cellis@sdsu.edu
Data visualization project for 2024 NNLM Data Visualization Challenge.
- Python 3
- Google Colaboratory
- Numpy
- Pandas
- Plotly Express
Data for prevalence from Maenner, et al. (2021) article. Data on sex ratio from Loomes, et al. (2017). Citations: Loomes, R., Hull, L., & Mandy, W. P. L. (2017). What is the male-to-female ratio in autism spectrum disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(6), 466–474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2017.03.013
Maenner, M. J., Shaw, K. A., Bakian, A. V., Bilder, D. A., Durkin, M. S., Esler, A., Furnier, S. M., Hallas, L., Hall-Lande, J., Hudson, A., Hughes, M. M., Patrick, M., Pierce, K., Poynter, J. N., Salinas, A., Shenouda, J., Vehorn, A., Warren, Z., Constantino, J. N., … Cogswell, M. E. (2021). Prevalence and Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years—Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2018. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Surveillance Summaries, 70(11), 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7011a1
Any licenses/restrictions placed on the code: Autism Infographic © 2024 by Mary Catherine Ellis is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Date of original data visualization: 2024-03-10 to 2024-03-14
This infographic was created to visualize data on autism prevalence and the sex ratio between males and females. This infographic represents new research, and how it has changed autism data and diagnosis. Additionally, a word cloud was created to help viewers new to autism and autism data understand what the condition is.
The data for the autism prevalence graph came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data for autism signs and symptomology are my own gathered from twenty consumer health websites in October 2023. For this dashboard, I used Python (in Google Colab with Pandas and Plotly Express), Voyant, and Canva for data visualizations. Canva was also used to create the infographic itself. The title was generated by Chat GPT, then modified by the creator. GitHub was used to host the dashboard and supplementary information. The intended audiences for this dashboard are autistic people and their loved ones, autism researchers, and clinicians who want to learn specific data about autism.
References:
Loomes, R., Hull, L., & Mandy, W. P. L. (2017). What is the male-to-female ratio in autism spectrum disorder? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(6), 466–474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2017.03.013
Maenner, M. J., Shaw, K. A., Bakian, A. V., Bilder, D. A., Durkin, M. S., Esler, A., Furnier, S. M., Hallas, L., Hall-Lande, J., Hudson, A., Hughes, M. M., Patrick, M., Pierce, K., Poynter, J. N., Salinas, A., Shenouda, J., Vehorn, A., Warren, Z., Constantino, J. N., … Cogswell, M. E. (2021). Prevalence and Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years—Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2018. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Surveillance Summaries, 70(11), 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7011a1