What is heart and circulatory disease in numbers?
To help people to better understand the key messages behind our heart and circulatory disease data, we have created interactive data visualisations to bring our annual stats to life. You may be asking yourself, what is a data visualisation? It's a graphical, reader-friendly way of showing patterns and trends in data. We are conscious that large Excel datasets are both off-putting and difficult to understand.
So we set out to make our data more accessible and, dare we say it: exciting for a wider audience. In essence, we took our CVD data from Excel tables and created interactive dashboards. This allows you to clearly see the story the data is telling. And it lets you play with the data based on what’s most interesting to you.
They are intended to help us tell compelling stories and convey the severity of our cause in an immediate and visually engaging way, so we can inspire action that leads to tangible change. See our current suite of data visualisations.
Who are they for?
We hope this will be a useful resource for many different individuals – whether they are influencing government or health system decision-makers, engaging the general public or potential donors. This tool can help make decisions on where to focus activities. We believe these data can and should be used to support decision-making, prioritisation, and communication about the magnitude and effect of heart and circulatory diseases in the UK.
Are they downloadable?
Yes, the bottom of each visualisation contains a grey bar that says ‘tableau’ and has a download icon in the bottom right corner. Once you click the icon, you will have the option to download the visualisation as an image, PDF, or PowerPoint.
This image shows where the download icon is found:
Where does the data come from?
These visualisations are based on data from our compendium of heart and circulatory disease statistics, which we publish at least annually. The datasets are from reputable, official sources (e.g. NHS England, Office for National Statistics), and some are created from new analysis. Sources are listed below each visualisation.