How healthy is Kingsbury?
A fascinating new health map has been published detailing a whole range of health indicators for each area of the country. For any of the conditions detailed, you just enter a postcode or click through to a ward and a colour represents the prevalence of the condition you are interested in. Of course there are many problems with representing data so simply and the site has a lot of information about how to interpret and use the date: it is essential to look at this when studying the representations of information or very wrong assumptions can be made, especially with rarer conditions. Cause and effect is also very difficult to assess as there are usually so many variables. But it's certainly interesting: why, for instance, is kidney disease a lot more common in Fryent ward than in nearby Queensbury? We'll be seeing a lot more of this sort of thing easy to understand representations of very complex data - it's often the only way to assimilate it and there is a lot of