Dataset of the Day: Tobacco Use

I regularly visit the British operated web news source, Guardian, to check if they have published any new links to data which could be generated through Finder! to create interesting maps in Maker!. Two of my recent blogs, Global Contaceptive Use and Champagne Anyone?, were both mapped using data linked from Guardian’s Data Blog and Data Store.

One of the main functions of GeoCommons is being able to take numerical data and visualize it geographically, thus making a powerful and aesthetically appealing analysis rather than looking at a plain spreadsheet.  Below is a map created from a Guardian Data Store link to World Health Organization data which illustrates the prevalence of global tobacco users over the age of 15:

(Click the map to view in Maker!)

Click here to view the dataset in Finder! and you can also map different age classes such as prevalence of current tobacco use among adolescents (13-15 years) (%) both sexes, prevalence of current tobacco use among adolescents (13-15 years) (%) female, prevalence of current tobacco use among adolescents (13-15 years) (%) male, prevalence of current tobacco use among adults (over 15 years) (%) female, and prevalence of current tobacco use among adults (over 15 years) (%) male.