The State Cancer Profiles web site and extensions of linked micromap plots and conditioned choropleth map plots

  • Authors:
  • Daniel B. Carr;Sue Bell;Linda Pickle;Yuguang Zhang;Yaru Li

  • Affiliations:
  • George Mason University;National Cancer Institute;National Cancer Institute;George Mason University;George Mason University

  • Venue:
  • dg.o '03 Proceedings of the 2003 annual national conference on Digital government research
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The National Cancer Institute's State Cancer Profiles web site that was launched in mid-April put the power of new graphical tools into the hands of cancer control planners and the public. This paper emphasizes advances in two graphics templates, one heavily used in the web site and one planned for future use. These templates for showing geospatially-indexed statistics address needs that are less well addressed by more conventional maps, such as the representation of estimate uncertainty. The web site and templates both evolved through extensive usability testing of targeted users. The results described in this paper signal highly visible acceptance of the new interactive and dynamic forms of these templates.