{"id":49956,"date":"2009-11-23T00:10:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T05:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/visualizing_the_cost_of_getting_sick.html"},"modified":"2009-11-23T00:10:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T05:10:51","slug":"visualizing-the-actual-cost-of-getting-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/49956","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the Actual Cost of Getting Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“The Cost of Getting Sick<\/a>” [ge.com] is a a new data visualization tool developed in collaboration with Ben Fry<\/a>, Director of Seed Visualization<\/a>. It enables the exploration of some the 6 million patient records currently stored in GE’s proprietary electronic medical records database.<\/p>\n

The online interactive tool allows users to slide a bar to select one’s age and then select parts of the pie chart in order to investigate a more complete picture of the actual costs associated with a wide range of chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, depression, and hypertension.<\/p>\n

A short, slick interview with Ben Fry regarding GE’s two recent data visualizations can be watched below<\/a>. <\/p>\n

See also Visualizing the Major Health Issues Facing Americans Today<\/a> and On the Origin of Species<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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“The Cost of Getting Sick” [ge.com] is a a new data visualization tool developed in collaboration with Ben Fry, Director of Seed Visualization. It enables the exploration of some the 6 million patient records currently stored in GE’s proprietary electronic medical records database. The online interactive tool allows users to slide a bar to select […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}