Scatter Plot of World Life Expectancy Data based on BMI
This scatter plot visualizes the relationship between average BMI and life expectancy across 15 years of WHO data, with each point representing a country. Continent membership is encoded through color, while point size and tooltips also convey BMI information and country names. Built using the Vega-Lite API with a thin wrapper around d3.v5, the visualization loads CSV data from a gist URL and renders as an SVG, configured with custom axis styling and a dark color palette for improved readability.
AI-generated descriptionLife Expectancy Data:
Dataset Source: Life Expectancy WHO Data uses the scatter plot visualization using vega-lite-api.
This visualization plot shows the Life expectancy of people in various parts of the world and the average BMI over a period of 15 years.
The colors represent the various continents. Size of the circle, the average BMI and tooltip displays the countries in the world.
Analysis: We can see that continents like Africa, Asia and Europe have lower BMI and that they have average or more than average life expectancy. We do see that towards the later stage, the data shows that life expectancy of Hyper Obese people (Avg BMI > 50) is more in continents like Oceania and Europe. Credibility of this information is to be further evaluated.
Note: The template was forked from Vega-Lite-API Template