Sunlight Labs

Design for America Entry

The rise of obesity rates worldwide mandates that population-wide lifestyle changes occur. Epidemiologic research points to food access, a spatial construct, as a major arena for change. The problem is that most policymakers are unaware of the link between food deserts and obesity. This project presents an integrated solution to ...

Visualizing county health rankings on the map of the United States. Using Flash and Modest Maps library among others.

Select a state, pick a county ... have fun.

Obesity is perhaps the most pressing of all American health concerns. Try to name another illness or condition that a quarter of the entire population has.

No progress will ever be made in rectifying the obesity epidemic if individuals do not understand how their communities compare to other communities and ...

Together We Breathe is a tool for concerned individuals (parents, community activists, asthma sufferers) to view the state of asthma in their community and to compare their community with others. Better living with asthma requires a combination of managing asthma triggers - e.g., air pollution, exercise, tobacco smoke - and self-management ...

Salubrious Nation is a game-y look at community health data which asks the player to guess community health stats using demographic hints and geo-visual feedback.

Interactive data visualization on the leading causes of death in the United States. Slice, dice, and analyze while learning about the major contributing death factors according to gender, age, and race.

Where we live matters to our health.

County Sin Rankings helps you quickly and easily understand the health of your community. There are many factors that determine the health of a county. County Sin Rankings takes a humorous look at seven health factors as related to the seven deadly sins ...

Medical muralist and art activist, Regina Holliday, used data sets from Data Access - Community Health Data Initiative - Interim Work Page and data.medicare.gov. She was helped in her data gathering by Dr. Ted Eytan. She created a painting using that data to describe George Washington University Hospital based on ...

The PolicyMap team is pleased to submit the “Health Widget” http://www.policymap.com/health-widget.html in the Design for America competition under Data Visualization: Visualizing Community Health Data.

The Health Widget allows users to see up-to-date and previous years’ information from USDA, HHS, CDC and Census in interactive maps ...