To get more experience with python I decided to recreate a dashboard I saw online, don’t bother about the subject: https://www/edwp.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/mental-health/suicide-rates. You can filter and select the data to download, I used the most recent data (2019). On the Visualisations tab (using the WHO link above) you can find the dashboard I tried to make (the second visualisation).
About the data
I should have known better and should have read the Metadata. The data is delivered with factnumbers for age-groups. And when I look at my result and compare it to the original, the first thing that comes to mind is “there must be a weighting factor for the age-groups on a continent or even a country”. The lineplot order is relatively ok, but the summaries are not at all, not even the order. Learning point: don’t ever do this again this way.
The result
Code and used dataset are on github. I could do more finishing this dashboard but the datathing made me decide to stop this exercise. My Dash dashboard in action:
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