JSM 2005 - Toronto

Abstract #302752

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Activity Number: 343
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Graphics
Abstract - #302752
Title: Improving the Communication of the Geographic Patterns of Disease Through Computer-based Tools
Author(s): Linda W. Pickle*+
Companies: National Cancer Institute
Address: Statistical Research and Applications Branch, Bethesda, MD, 20892-8317,
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Abstract:

Maps have the potential to display the geographic patterns of millions of statistical data points, something impossible using a tabular display. A poorly designed map, however, can fail to convey important underlying features in the data or distort their true geographic patterns. We conducted an interdisciplinary research program at the National Center for Health Statistics in an effort to improve the design of disease rate maps. This program has been extended at the National Cancer Institute to improve the communication of geographic statistics more effectively through computer- and web-based applications. We will summarize the results of this research and describe new geovisualization tools being developed and tested for exploring, analyzing, and communicating patterns in cancer data.

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