1. Alina Kline Spring Term 2010

2.  Data source description & succinct background  Original data representation  Data representation redesign

3. Alzheimer’s disease 7 th leading cause of death across all ages in the US in 2006 and the 5 th leading cause of death for those aged 65 and older. Redesigned table based on information provided in: “Deaths: Final data for 2006.” (National Vital Statistics Reports Vol. 57, No. 14., Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, 2009. by Heron, MP; Hoyert, DL; Murphy, SL; Xu, JQ; Kochanek, KD; Tejada-Vera, B.

5. Too much information on the page: columns repeated twice on same page. Unnecessary highlighting making it a bit more difficult to distinguish among states. Not very easy to interpret data from table. Not the best representation of this data.

7. Better representation of data: easier to single out extreme number of deaths due to the disease or extreme mortality rates. Easier to interpret data. Visualization option of all states that enables an easier way to distinguish among states with extreme mortality rates.

8. Inserting value labels on the last panel, values corresponding to the extreme cases. Representing this data using other graphical methods.