I chose to visualize the United States death rate data sourced from the Statistical Abstract of the United States. The data provides statistics of various causes of death in each state as well as information on related factors.
In my visualization, I compared the death rates caused by suicide and homicide per state by using Tableau’s side-by-side bar graph function. I thought it was very interesting to see that in most states suicide was a greater cause of death than homicide except for the District of Columbia, Louisiana, and Maryland. It was also fascinating that the District of Columbia had a tremendously large amount of homicides compared to every other state. From viewing the data in this way it made me wonder if the data has any correlation in the citizens’ of the various states outlook on their quality of life or safety of where they live. Also, if the data provided information on the death rates from year to year it would be interesting to see how/if the rates were affected by major events that occurred in the state each year.