The vis is about the various purported health benefits of the health supplements on offer, their popularity and their effectiveness at actually helping. The vis was a real challenge to develop, as my first data vis piece I learnt a lot from it. Making something that is both attractive, intuitive and useful is sadly something that rarely happens in the day to day world of flash development, often we get to aim for two of the three, rarely all of them.
Hopefully this will be the first of many of these kinds of projects for me, it’s something I really enjoy.
Check it out here.
I am interested in your “Snake Oil?” chart. I personally have found some of the things below the “Worth It” line that definitely work for me. I know that not all the herbal suppliments work well, depending on the guaranteed potency, and freshness of the product. For example, Saw Palmetto work for me. However, Echinacea, I just don’t know.
I understand that your stats are from scientific information, but really, how many studies have been done on these. As far as I know, not many have went through that much testing because companies or people don’t want to spend the money. I take the herbs, whether “science” has proved them or not. Most of the ones I take work. If you want a list, I will send them along. Thanks!
[AP - Full information on the nature, results and scope of the studies can be found in the original article linked to above. I am pleased to hear that some of the supplements found to be of little use in large, human, randomized placebo-controlled trials *do* work for you, however I am sure you understand that creating an infographic based on personal anecdotes rather than hard scientific data would be both near impossible, and mostly useless. ]
1.Theinteractive chart is cuotoff on the right side on the Info site
2.Reishi is missing from your data spreadsheet
An amazing chart to be sure from what I can tell! Imagine that I would be reffered from a pc gaming clan to a major interest of health supplements being here!