State
The state view allows users to explore how mortality rates differ by county and what factors may explain why this is the case. This view displays one state and its county by county mortality rates at different times, risk groups of counties, these risk groups through time, and the most strongly correlated destructive and protective factors. By selecting "United States" in the state dropdown, users can view this same information for the entire country.
In the upper left is an overview of the state view. It includes the state selected, a description of the selected cause of death selected, and a brief summary of the elements on the page.
In the upper center portion of the page, there is a map that displays each county's mortality rate as a shade of red. Darker shades of red indicate higher mortality rates for the selected cause of death. For counties where data was missing, the values were imputed.
The buttons above the map are used to change which period of time's mortality rates are being displayed.
Users can click on a county in this view to select it application-wide. On this page, a selected county is outlined in this map and the Risk Groups Map, and its mortality rates from 2000-2017 are plotted as part of the Trend Graph line graph as a dashed line if the data is not imputed.
The Risk Groups Map is in the bottom left below the overview text box. This map displays the counties by their "risk group" (typically high, medium, or low).
Clicking a county on this map will select it application-wide, which has the effects described above. A county's name will pop up when moused over.
The Trend Graph is a line graph in the bottom of the center portion of the page. It shows the mortality rates for the selected state's risk clusters from 2000-2017. The blue line is the national average mortality rate through time for the selected cause of death.
If the state has too few counties to properly cluster into risk groups, each individual county is plotted as its own risk group. Each group is labeled the county name, and the groups are still ordered such that the most yellow county has the best mortality rate.
On the far right side, there is a lollipop plot. This shows the results from our Kendall Tau analysis. For the selected state, the fifteen most correlated social or economic factors with the selected cause of death are displayed. Only statistically significantly correlated factors are displayed, which may lead to less than 15 being shown.
The Kendall Correlation between each factor and the selected mortality rate is displayed in the circle part of the lollipop for each factor. Hovering over this circle pops up a description of the factor.
Clicking on the circle moves the application to the factor view page and where the clicked on factor will be selected. This page will provide an in-depth look at this factor and navigation so the other factors can be examined as well.
