In this project, I worked with classmate T. L. to analyze mortality patterns across the Netherlands, with the goal to deliver a product for a non-mathematician client. One of my contributions is an interactive bubble plot that shows the similarity in the profile of death causes between municipalities. The user can pick a similarity calculation to see how each performs, and then a municipality can be selected from a menu or by clicking its corresponding bubble.
The color of the circles indicates similarity in raw deaths per 10000 inhabitants, while their radius shows the similarity in the more informative Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR). The similarity values are normalized row-wise, this means that for each selected municipality, there will always be a range from 0 to 1. Therefore, the values will not be symmetric: If we select Groningen, the similarity to Haarlemmermeer is 0.5, but if we select Haarlemmermeer, the similarity to Groningen is 0.48. We do this to increase the variance in circle size and color, so the differences are emphasized.