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As lifespan in the modern age continues to increase, it is interesting to dig into the leading causes of death for perspectives on where to put our research eff

As lifespan in the modern age continues to increase, it is interesting to dig into the leading causes of death for perspectives on where to put our research efforts. Made using the dc.js library. It's interactive! You can click on any of the plots to refilter the data.

deckar01 11y ago
dc.js seems to support mobile devices[0], why doesn't this visualization? [0] https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/
- subcosmos 11y ago
  I have indeed been chasing an obscure bug. It's not within dc.js itself, but the underlying D3 library. Sorry mobile users! The best Ive been able to do is show a screenshot for many mobile browsers. Even so, the draw performance is terrible since there is so much data being loaded. While smaller dc visualizations can work on a mobile device, its just too dang slow to show 10's of thousands of records. A laptop however has no problem.
  - deckar01 11y ago
    Is this visualization's source code hosted anywhere?
    - subcosmos 11y ago
      I will post it eventually. Need to clean things up first. On the frontend, there really isn't anything new aside from whats already been featured in the many examples for dc.js: https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ What people might benefit from is the python scripts Ive used to processes the CDC data so that it is nicely compressed.
adrianN 11y ago
I think it's worthwhile not to put all our efforts into curing a particular cause of death. First because this doesn't necessarily increase quality of live for the elderly, which I think is hugely important. Secondly, because after a certain age all kinds of things break down and the current leading cause of death (eg cancer, heart-disease, alzheimer) is likely just an effect of general accumulation of damage in the body.
- subcosmos 11y ago
  Agreed completely. My deepest passion is aging biology. What I learned however in studying type II diabetes and obesity, is that the molecular mechanisms are hugely aligned. Its all the same core metabolic genes that the aging biologists focus on in worms and flies. Those are the genes that seem to be related to insulin signaling and diabetes. My core vision of this project is to better understand this overlap.

deckar01 11y ago

dc.js seems to support mobile devices[0], why doesn't this visualization? [0] https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/

subcosmos 11y ago
I have indeed been chasing an obscure bug. It's not within dc.js itself, but the underlying D3 library. Sorry mobile users! The best Ive been able to do is show a screenshot for many mobile browsers. Even so, the draw performance is terrible since there is so much data being loaded. While smaller dc visualizations can work on a mobile device, its just too dang slow to show 10's of thousands of records. A laptop however has no problem.
- deckar01 11y ago
  Is this visualization's source code hosted anywhere?
  - subcosmos 11y ago
    I will post it eventually. Need to clean things up first. On the frontend, there really isn't anything new aside from whats already been featured in the many examples for dc.js: https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ What people might benefit from is the python scripts Ive used to processes the CDC data so that it is nicely compressed.

adrianN 11y ago

I think it's worthwhile not to put all our efforts into curing a particular cause of death. First because this doesn't necessarily increase quality of live for the elderly, which I think is hugely important. Secondly, because after a certain age all kinds of things break down and the current leading cause of death (eg cancer, heart-disease, alzheimer) is likely just an effect of general accumulation of damage in the body.

subcosmos 11y ago
Agreed completely. My deepest passion is aging biology. What I learned however in studying type II diabetes and obesity, is that the molecular mechanisms are hugely aligned. Its all the same core metabolic genes that the aging biologists focus on in worms and flies. Those are the genes that seem to be related to insulin signaling and diabetes. My core vision of this project is to better understand this overlap.