Bloomberg American Health Case Studies
About the Project
As part of the larger Open Case Studies project (OCS), these case
studies were developed for and funded by the Bloomberg
American Health Initiative. The OCS project is made up of a team of
researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
(JHSPH).
What You’ll Work With
Question Type
- Changes over time?
- Differences in groups? regions?
- Differences in groups over time?
- Differences in paired groups?
- Predict outcomes for new data?
- Does this influence my data?
- Relationships between variables?
- Display data for others to find, interpret and easily use
Data Type
- CSV
- Website
- Excel
- Text in images
- API
- Google sheets
- Survey data / Code books
- Multiple files
Wrangling Methods
- Extracting data from a PDF
- Geocoding data
- Joining data
- Filtering data
- Reshaping data
- Transforming data
- Working with text data
- Repetitive processes
What You’ll Learn
Intro Data Viz
- Interpretable tables
- Scatter plots, line plots, bar plots
- Pie chart / waffle plots
- Heat maps
- Correlation plots
- Visualize missing data
- Creating maps of your own data
Data Viz
- Data visualization styles
- Facet plots
- Adding labels & annotations
- Adding error bars
- Combining multiple plots
- Interactive plots
- Interactive maps
- Interactive dashboards
Analysis Methods
- Percentages with missing data
- t-tests
- Correlation and causation
- ANOVA
- Linear regression
- Chi-squared test of independence
- Mann-Kendall Trend test
- Machine learning
Case Studies
Obesity and the Food System
Environmental Challenges
Addiction and Overdose
Violence
Adolescent Health