Visualizing Bloodtests

Great example of visualization can improve data presentation from David McCandless. This example takes something very important and difficult to understand - blood test results - and turns them into a visual easy to understand document.

Visualizing Bloodtests:

We were happy to win a design competition in Wired US this month. 

It was around re-envisioning medical data. Specifically, blood test results. Which suck, design-wise. They still look like secret missives from the CIA circa 1965. Yet their contents are vitally – perhaps mortally – important. 

Our challenge was to approach a cholesterol level test. First it looked like this.

Then we designed it thus: