Infino
Data
health data visualization
SHOW HN2015
38points
24comments
#750of 2,565 in 2015
Top 30%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Execution: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting, impressive interface
From 1 comment
Very cool. I think if you added a few more ways of slicing and dicing this data, you would have a decent chance at getting it accepted to a bioinformatics journal. For example,…
xaa on HN
Objections
Y-axis labels are cut off on the left
From 1 comment
The age of death graph cuts off the values of the y axis on the left, so all I can see is a bunch of "00,000" values. I can only really make relative assessments to the age…
kbenson on HN
Does not work well on mobile devices
From 2 comments
dc.js seems to support mobile devices[0], why doesn't this visualization? [0] https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/
deckar01 on HNI have indeed been chasing an obscure bug. It's not within dc.js itself, but the underlying D3 library. Sorry mobile users! The best Ive been able to do is show a screenshot for…
subcosmos on HN
Requests
Normalize y-axis to percentages by age group
From 1 comment
Very cool. I think if you added a few more ways of slicing and dicing this data, you would have a decent chance at getting it accepted to a bioinformatics journal. For example,…
xaa on HN
Add hierarchical cause-of-death categories
From 1 comment
Very cool. I think if you added a few more ways of slicing and dicing this data, you would have a decent chance at getting it accepted to a bioinformatics journal. For example,…
xaa on HN
Publish source code
From 1 comment
Is this visualization's source code hosted anywhere?
deckar01 on HN
Questions
How could the public use this data and genetic data safely?
From 1 comment
Cool, I am looking forward to an improved version. I would be interested in your rationale behind how the public would/could use this kind of data. I think the infino.me/health…
xaa on HN
Can genetic data be analysed without exposing raw data?
From 2 comments
It is a good idea in general, but the idea of infosec for genetic data is a minefield. I deal with similar limitations daily -- one of my areas is large-scale meta-analysis of…
xaa on HNCool, one thing though, you're not getting my genome. That's like giving you my fingerprints and we've just barely met. My fitbit data has probably already outed me to you given…
varelse on HN