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How You Will Die - scientific way to find out when and why you die
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
Forewarned is forearmed. Convenient interactive infographics help to determine what is to be feared, and the probability of death is highest.
People are literally eager to find out the date of his own death. Whenever possible, a person turns to fortunetellers, witches and other healers, charlatans, and in most cases one way or another trying to find their destiny and lifetime.
But the time of magic and witchcraft in the past. XXI century - the age of the Internet, big data and computer modeling. And this is a sufficient instrument for this answer. Even on the question of the survival of the individual.
Nathan Yau (Nathan Yau), employee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, submitted interactive visualization depending on the length of life of sex, race, age. How You Will Die - the result of the analysis of statistical data of the medical institutions in the world. Putting the necessary parameters, you can see how the cause and probability itself of death as they age. According to the author, it works like this:
Each point is a probabilistic model of life, and the more years of life is modeled, the more points assigned. The color corresponds to the point of cause of death, and the columns on the right show the probability of dying from a particular factor.
Try to move the slider to the right age, and pay attention to the fact that the model will show the disease as the most likely cause of death. After 80 years, it is no longer important gender and race: circulatory problems are the most frequent cause of death.
And you dare to look at the graph of your own life?
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