When You'll Probably Die, Visualized

When You'll Probably Die, Visualized by _ShAnE_StArK_ 2016/01/19 16:35
You've already found out how you might die -but
when's it going to happen? This visualization of
data from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention should give you a better idea.
Created by Nathan Yau from Flowing Data, the
interactive visualization takes your sex, race, and
age, then simulates how things might play out
for the rest of your life-or what there is left of it.
Yau explains how it works :
Each dot represents one of your simulated
lives, and as each year passes, more of your
simulated selves pass away. Color
corresponds to cause of death, and the bars
on the right keep track of the cumulative
percentages. By the end, you're left with the
chances that you will die of each cause.
Shift age to the older years, and let the
simulations run. You're much more likely to
die of a disease rather than something
external. Shift past 80 years, and it's over 40
percent chance the cause will be circulatory,
regardless of demographic group.
So what are you waiting for? Find out when you
might die according to data....