Revealing Maps

This is kind of a morbid application, but it's an interest of mine ---using interfaces and visualization to make data more meaningful, that is.

This particular application depicts the death rates in recent years for different conditions by hospitals across the U.S.

It gives you a peek, based on hard data, on where the best and worst hospitals might be in your state or across the country for treating things like heart attacks and pneumonia.

One of the worst places, for example, for heart attacks seems to be Kennewick General Hospital in Washington and LeHigh Vallley Hospital in PA, one of the best.