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Label on community-specific data column #1

Open aronboros opened 10 years ago

aronboros commented 10 years ago

It seems misleading/confusing to label the third column “% of community”—356 residents doesn’t make up 19% of Athol’s population. It should probably be consistent with CHIA fact sheets (i.e., Percent of Community Discharges).

aronboros commented 10 years ago

In order to provide greater insight into what's going on in Boston, CHIA uses USPS zip-based neighborhood designations. They are available in the Acute Hospital Databook (http://www.mass.gov/chia/docs/r/hospital-profiles/2012/massachusetts-hospital-profiles-acute-databook-2.xlsx), tab G, in the Community column. (Note that Community="Boston" means "Central Boston." All the "Metro Boston" communities can be determined using the "Region" column. Not all of these are City of Boston.)

There's a trade-off between splitting Boston into neighborhoods versus keeping it all one unit. Perhaps create a separate Boston-specific map (or a toggle on the main map) to show the alternate view?

aronboros commented 10 years ago

In the border communities, we believe significant numbers of people go to out-of-state hospitals, but we do not have the relevant data. You may want to footnote that somehow.

jsonin commented 10 years ago

Ok, looking into this.

jsonin commented 10 years ago

As far as the Boston neighborhoods, what if at zoomed out levels, one saw the metro-area as a single unit and as one zooms closer in, the fidelity of neighborhoods gets higher? If that doesn't work, a dipswitch for showing metro Boston as a single unit or as a combination of neighborhoods is an option.

clementprdhomme commented 10 years ago

Aron, thank you for the feedback.

Now, when you click a border community, you have a footnote saying "No relevant data for people going to out-of-state hospitals".

Also, the label of the patients' origin is now "% of discharges" with the footnote "Percentage of the community discharges"

aronboros commented 10 years ago

I think the dynamic zoom would be the best - good idea!

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Juhan Sonin notifications@github.com wrote:

As far as the Boston neighborhoods, what if at zoomed out levels, one saw the metro-area as a single unit and as one zooms closer in, the fidelity of neighborhoods gets higher? If that doesn't work, a dipswitch for showing metro Boston as a single unit or as a combination of neighborhoods is an option.

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