Brainstorming - Stage 1

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Initial Ideas:

Think about how to best visualise relationship between Self-Reported Health (SRH) and Deprivation Index (carrying on from yesterday)

Look at the relationship between SRH and Mental Wellbeing

Look at the relationship between Mental Wellbeing and Social Exclusion Index

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Main Ideas:

Initially, we decided to explore the relationship between the two variables by plotting them against each other. We explored different types of plots:

• Scatter plot
• Line plot
• Stacked bar graph
• Point plot

What we tried out:

It appears that there is an association between the two variables (i.e., SRH and DeprIndex), namely that as deprivation decreases, self-reported health improves (which is intuitive). However, by plotting the relationship between these two variables using a line plot, we seem to miss out on important information > we need to take into consideration that SRH is a categorical variable.

• We explored sex differences between men and women, but did not really find any (visually) intriguing differences.

• We also looked at SRH and mental well-being. Again, we tried plotting a scatter plot first but that did not seem to be an appropriate visualization option. A line plot seemed easier to interpret.

• Another interesting thing we decided to do was explore several different variables plotted against the different categories of SRH. The variables that we decided to plot were 1) mental well-being, 2) deprivation index, and 3) gender. We did realize that, because the different variables have different measurement scales, we could not visualize them with a line plot (for multiple categorical variables displayed on the x axis) > aggregation/standardization might be needed?

• A further idea: to add social exclusion as a potentially important factor to consider alongside deprivation and visualize all variables considered previously alongside social exclusion using a point plot.

We played around with different colours and widths in the process.