Humanizing Big Data and Detailing Social Determinants of Health via Information Visualizations

Abstract

The pandemic has had devastating impacts on humanity and the global healthcare sector. An analysis into the social determinants of health, in particular racial and ethnic disparities may explain why certain population groups have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. The objective of this study is to humanize and personify numerical data. Additionally, COVID-19 population data will be stratified via three data visualization tools (i.e., a persona, a journey map, Sankey diagram) to create a Visualized Combined Experience (VCE) Diagram to illustrate the micro, and macro, perspectives of marginalized individuals across the continuum of care.

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“…As available data become increasingly granular, Sankey diagrams have become a prevalent visualization for system flows and transfers [50]. Despite limited use thus far in medical research, Sankey diagrams are gaining traction for their lucid representation of information flow [53], particularly in health services research and public health to depict patient navigation of healthcare systems [54] and other big healthcare data applications [55]. Recent studies also apply Sankey diagrams in cancer research [52,56,57].…”