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3.1.3C Summaries of data analyzed computationally can be effective in communicating insight and knowledge gained from digitally represented information.
3.2.1A Large data sets provide opportunities and challenges for extracting information and knowledge.
3.2.1B Large data sets provide opportunities for identifying trends, making connections in data, and solving problems.
3.2.1C Computing tools facilitate the discovery of connections in information within large data sets.
3.2.1D Search tools are essential for efficiently finding information.
3.2.1E Information filtering systems are important tools for finding information and recognizing patterns in the information.
3.2.1F Software tools, including spreadsheets and databases, help to efficiently organize and find trends in information.

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Analyzing Global Health Data

On this page, you will explore, analyze, and summarize big data about global health trends using an interactive data vizualization tool.

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3.2.1A Large data sets provide opportunities and challenges for extracting information and knowledge.
3.2.1B Large data sets provide opportunities for identifying trends, making connections in data, and solving problems.
3.2.1C Computing tools facilitate the discovery of connections in information within large data sets.
3.2.1F Software tools, including spreadsheets and databases, help to efficiently organize and find trends in information.
7.2.1A Machine learning and data mining have enabled innovation in medicine, business, and science.
7.2.1C Computing enables innovation by providing access to and sharing of information.

Big data is a common term that describes extremely large data sets used to discover patterns in human behavior, interactions, and health as well as in environmental science and many other fields. Large data sets can be overwhelming to analyze, but computer software tools can help researchers extract information, identify trends, make connections, and solve problems with big data.

    Talk with Your Partner
  1. If the interactive graph doesn't work on this page, you can view it on google.com.
    Explore the following interactive data set.
    1. What does each point represent?
    2. What does each axis represent? Click for a hint.
      If you are viewing the data on this page, the label for the vertical axis is at the top of that axis. (If you are viewing it directly on google.com, it's along the left where it usually is.)
    3. What do the colors represent?
    4. What does the size of each point indicate?
    5. What does the slider at the bottom do?
  2. Talk with Your Partner Analyze the data. In the interative graph above, click the play button in the lower-left or move the slider at the bottom. Discucss the following:
    1. What does this interactive data set tell you about global trends in life expectency over time (on average)?
    2. What about global trends in fertility over time (on average)?
    3. Move the slider to 1960 (all the way to the left). Describe the meaning of the cluster of orange data points in the lower right. What does this tell you about trends in about this region of the world at that time?
    4. Move the slider to 2015 (all the way to the right). Describe the meaning of the cluster of pink data points in the upper left. What does this tell you about trends in about this region of the world at that time?
    5. Move the slider back and forth across time, and select one country that follows a path that is interesting to you. Describe what this tells you about the life expectancy and fertility of this country over this time period.
  1. Use the Internet to research the country you chose. Determine what likely impacted life expectancy and fertility across this time period. Be specific. Was there a war at a time that life expectancy dropped? Were there advances in maternal care at a time that fertility increased?
    3.1.3C Summaries of data analyzed computationally can be effective in communicating insight and knowledge gained from digitally represented information.
    Write Out Your Thoughts
  1. Summarize your findings. Write a paragraph or two with your partner describing your findings about life expectancy and fertility for this country over this time period.