This is my favorite plot from this post, showing life expectancy at three spatial scales:
- Countries of the world (range: 51 to 85 yrs)
- Counties of the US (66 to 90 yrs)
- Census tracts in King County, WA (71 to 87 yrs)
At each scale, averages hide dramatic spatial heterogeneity in health
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago