Further into causes of death in US: The geographical difference

Your death depends on where you live. This is not surprising. We learnt it in things like "Gun, Germs and Steel" the book. Now we have serious data to prove it.

Recently, a viz of the day showed the causes of death in USA. Andy Kriebel published a makeover of the viz. As a follower of Andy's blog, I noticed there is a pattern in the distribution of the death rates from Andy's viz. It inspired me to further look into the data from a geo perspective. From the study, I got a better understanding of the distribution of the major causes of death in the US.

This Tableau story is here to present the analysis process as well as the visual tools for further exploration and analysis. The findings are presented in the summary. It may lead to more questions like why there is huge difference in annual death rate between some states. We allow you to visualize those differences.

The main points are:
- Leading causes distribution on a map
- Leading causes distribution by longitude on scatter plot
- Leading causes distribution by altitude on scatter plot
- State rank by death rate- Cause rank by death rate
- State rank by cause- Cause rank by state
- In-state percentage per cause comparison
- Top 2 causes' contribution 
- Summary

The original data is from CDC 2011. The rate is per 100,000 population.