{"id":362,"date":"2009-04-07T08:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T12:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-04-10T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:00:49","slug":"mapping-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/04\/07\/mapping-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2006\/01\/08\/nyregion\/20060109_DIABETES_GRAPHIC.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/04\/diabetes_610.png\" alt=\"Diabetes rates in New York and the US\" title=\"diabetes_610\" width=\"610\" height=\"974\" class=\"size-full wp-image-363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/04\/diabetes_610.png 610w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/04\/diabetes_610-187x300.png 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diabetes rates in New York and the US<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>What Works<\/h3>\n<p>Contextualizing the story about diabetes in New York by including data at the national and global level is quite smart.  Sticking with maps to tell the whole story lends consistency.<\/p>\n<h3>What Needs Work<\/h3>\n<p>Comparison maps like this are clearest when their scales are the same.  I see no reason that they should be different or why the colors need to be different.  In the sense that the scales, in fact, are different, I appreciate the choice to use different colors.  At least there&#8217;s some visual indication that direct comparison between the maps is not a good idea.  <\/p>\n<p>With respect to the graphs, it appears that they are all the same,  just different populations, but that is not the case.  The city and national data shows prevalence rates but the global data shows mortality, not morbidity.  Close readers can figure it out.<\/p>\n<h3>Relevant Resources<\/h3>\n<p>Kleinfield, N.R. (2006, 9 January) <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?sec=health&amp;res=9907E2DA1F30F93AA35752C0A9609C8B63&amp;scp=4&amp;sq=diabetes&amp;st=cse\">Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis<\/a> The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Works Contextualizing the story about diabetes in New York by including data at the national and global level is quite smart. Sticking with maps to tell the whole story lends consistency. What Needs Work Comparison maps like this are clearest when their scales are the same. I see no reason that they should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[988,270,1070],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-health-care","tag-maps","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}