www.mortality.watch - A new Web App to track and compare mortality rates across the globe
Lets see how Canada and US compare to Germany, Sweden, Ukraine and Russia.
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We talked already about the increase in deaths since fall last year in previous issues. Some of you have also seen US Mortality App developed by anonymous data scientists in US and the Open Canada Vital Statistics (Deaths) tracker Web App (URL: https://open-canada.github.io/Apps/vitals, source code: https://github.com/open-canada/vitals) that I have built with other Canadian data scientist over a year ago, which allows one to tracks and compare weekly mortality rates - across Canadian provinces, by causes of deaths and by age group.
Here’s a new one Web App that allows one to track and compare weekly mortality rates - across different countries: https://www.mortality.watch/.
What I like about it (besides the fact that it is also written in R using Shiny and ggplot, and that the source code of it is also made publicly available in GitHub - sorry about all this professional jargon) is the simplicity of its interface and convenience of copying images from there.
So, lets have now some fun with it … or have some deep thought about what’s going on, and where… Starting from Canada, US, then Sweden vs. Germany, ending with Ukraine and Russia.
Anything interesting you see there?
On my side - talking about Canada deaths data, which I got to know quite well , I see that this App confirms the StatCan data that are visualized by our Open Canada Data App and which were just updated, two days ago (as they always are on second Thursday of the month) - related to the elevated number of deaths in Canada since Fall last year.
It also showed that such elevated number of deaths since Fall 2021 is observed not only in Canada but in many other developed countries, but surprisingly (?) not in Sweden and some African countries.
I wonder why? Maybe this is due the fact that data are corrupted or incomplete (which could be the case for some countries)? Or, maybe because the vaccination/pandemic policies were different in those countries ? - I don’t know. I also note that some African countries are not listed there.
What do you think?
Is that something you want to discuss with your MP or at least with your neighbors?…