State selection further filters the data, and a final filter shows the impact of having a health care plan, often more strongly associated with poor health outcomes than high-risk behaviors like smoking. The Health Outcome Navigator allows users to create thousands of unique views that show the burden of different health outcomes across demographic groups and according to behaviors and health plan status.

The goal of the project was to produce a simple way for anyone to explore the BRFSS data. I aggregated the 2011 and 2012 BRFSS data to make it compatible with the 2004-2010 prevalence data. The focus was on variables that were consistently reported throughout most of the time frame and of interest iqoption to the general public.

The first dashboard displays a broad view of variation in risk measures between states. The percent of respondents in each state reporting each variable is shown on the y-axis. Box-plots are used to quickly find outlying states. A drop down menu allows users to easily select their risk measure of interest. Users may click on a data point to highlight the state in all time periods, as well as on the scatterplot. Since large differences exist by sex, users may show results by sex. The scatter plot allows users to choose a second measure to explore relationships between two risk factors. Each data point shows the percent of respondents in each risk measure by state by year.

The second dashboard provides a map showing the average percent over the full time period. Users may click on a state (or multiple states) to better see how the risk measure changes over time.

The final dashboard displays average measures (over time) for each subgroup by state.This permits comparisons by respondent sex, age range, race, and education level. Again, selecting a data point highlights all data points from that state.