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Mapping H1N1 virus: pattern of spread over time

Started 2 years ago by tomhobson / 7 posts

  1. tomhobson
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi,
    My first-time visiting this forum. Looking forward to getting some feedback and advice from interested members. My work involves providing thematic mapping services to a range of agencies here in Ireland. As a side interest I am trying to develop effective means of communicating the unfolding of events (environmental, economic, political etc.)over space and time.
    Here are two efforts to communicate the rate and pattern of spread of H1N1 swine flu virus cases based on public-domain data.
    The maps are simple dot distributiion thematics generated from Mapinfo files. I call them Mapblogs.

    They are posted on Youtube with the following titles:

    Swine flu (H1N1): spread in mainland US - the first month
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d3nPS2voH0

    H1N1 09, Australia: Flu virus - time-series map of spread of cases to June 17 '09
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xtr1a9uIC0

  2. femion
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    My lab group is also working on visualizing H1N1 - in our case the evolution of the virus:

    http://kiwi.cs.dal.ca/~beiko/MediaWiki/mediawiki-1.13.4/images/e/e5/H1N1_SwineFlu_Trees.swf

    http://kiwi.cs.dal.ca/~beiko/MediaWiki/mediawiki-1.13.4/images/e/ed/H1N1_SwineFlu_Spread.swf

  3. Tim
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    It's a very similar idea to what Nathan did with his growth of walmart project.

    I found yours a little difficult in comparison, as the dots are so small, and the time moves pretty slowly.

    Another example is the original growth of walmart project, which uses smaller dots to good effect (plus shows the finished maop up front in diff color)

    http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51

    This project was picked up in Ben Fry's data visualisation book,he looked at distribution of zip codes in a very similar way.

    http://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Data-Explaining-Processing-Environment/dp/0596514557/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247019620&sr=8-2

    He added a couple of other features you might get inspiration from, particularly the zoom and filter functions. He used processing for this.

    HTH

    Cheers,
    Tim

  4. tomhobson
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks for the useful comments Tim. I'll check out the examples you mention and look at a revision/update.
    Tom

  5. flinklabs
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    We created this visualisation of the growth of H1N1 across the world based on data from WHO.

    http://www.flinklabs.com/projects/h1n1

    Cheers

    Ben Hosken
    Founder
    Flink Labs
    Data Visualisation Beyond the Bar Chart

  6. mchapman87501
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    We created an interactive visualization of H1N1 incidents over time, using data from http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/:

    http://h1n1.mesaac.com/

  7. johnm
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    WHO used InstantAtlas to plot the spread of swine flu on their global and European web sites. PAHO also used it for tracking in the Americas.

    Although the WHO "time line" is no longer live (because many national health departments have stopped monitoring incidence) there are other international examples at:

    http://www.instantatlas.com/h1n1-swineflu


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