Our 3D data visualization project was created over the span of 2-3 weeks, and our idea to create a model of the global child mortality rates was influenced by seeing that child mortality rates around the world are unexpectedly high, especially in developing countries. Most child deaths are preventable with access to proper healthcare and education, which most developing countries don’t have enough funding for, which is the main reason why we wanted to emphasize the issue of child mortality through our 3D model, and hopefully educate others about the importance of keeping younger generations safe, and the healthcare issues that are present within developing countries that are not being addressed as well.

We wanted a simple model which people can understand easily, in order to reach a larger audience and spread awareness, which is why we chose to design our model with simple colours and scales to represent the data in a way that most people would understand. The colours represent the main cause of death in the country, and the size of the child figure represents the amount of children dying per year, or the child mortality rate.

       

 

Final product:

key:

• red: birth defects
• yellow: preterm births
• green: respiratory diseases (pneumonia)
• blue: infectious diseases