Sun Risks: Visualizing the Statistics

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[ Project Lead ] @SASUSA [ GitHub Repo ] https://github.com/SASUSA/SunRisksStatsViz [ Track ] Data visualization [ Level ] Beginner [ Timezone ] ET

Description

Creative data visualizations for the following sun risk statistics to accompany this published piece: http://www.stats.org/sun-risk-skin-cancer-different-groups/.

• SEER Stat Fact Sheets: Melanoma of the Skin: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/melan.html
• As the American Cancer Society noted, “the past 5 years of data indicate that rates are declining or plateauing among those younger than 50. For example, from 2008 to 2012, incidence rates declined by about 3% per year in both men and women ages 20-29. In contrast, among adults 50 and older, the incidence rate has increased by 2.6% per year since 1996.” http://seer.cancer.gov/ http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@research/documents/document/acspc-047079.pdf
• This table from U.S. study looking at childhood sunburns and subsequent melanoma diagnoses, finding these odds ratios: http://www.stats.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Sunburns3-e1461772160559.png
• Current Data on Risk Factor Estimates Does Not Explain the Difference in Rates of Melanoma between Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jsc/2016/2105250/tab1/
• Of those people who get melanoma, it steals an average of 17.1 years of someone’s life. http://progressreport.cancer.gov/end/life_lost

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[careysensci]

Excited to see what we can create tomorrow. Carey Reed from SASUSA will be available to answer any questions June 2 & 3 ET. Thanks so much Mozilla Science Lab for hosting such a great event!