SuicideWatch: Proposal

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PROPOSAL

POSTER

APPLICATION

RESEARCH PAPER

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PROBLEM & MOTIVATION

Suicide rates are at their highest since WWII. Close to 800 000 people die due to suicide globally every year, which is one person every 40 seconds. Suicide is a global phenomenon and occurs throughout the lifespan. In Singapore, suicide is the leading cause of death for those aged 10-29. Females are more likely to be diagnosed with depression and attempt suicide, but males accounted for more than 71% of all suicides in Singapore in 2018. The steady suicide figures signal the presence of an unseen epidemic, one that silently tips people over the edge. While most push the blame to depression, there is no one size fits all explanation when it comes to suicide. Can suicide rates be simply mapped to the Happiness Index or GDP per Capita? Or is there more than meets the eye?

OBJECTIVES

In this project, we are interested in creating a visualization that helps analysts perform the following:

1. Explore suicides rates in each country
2. Explore if there is a correlation between the suicide rate and happiness index
3. Explore the suicide demography of each country
4. Establish possible correlations of each country’s suicide with its GDP and the include of social media / technological advancements

SELECTED DATASETS

Dataset/Source	Data Attributes	Why this Dataset?
Suicide Rates Overview (1985 to 2016) (https://www.kaggle.com/russellyates88/suicide-rates-overview-1985-to-2016)	Suicide rate by country Suicide demography (Age/Gender) Economic data (GDP)	This dataset will be our main source of global suicide data.
World Happiness index 2019 (https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/)	Overall Happiness Rankings of Countries Worldwide Individual segment scores for each country (Freedom of speech, social support, etc)	This dataset will be used for comparison to each country's suicide rates.
Worldwide GDP (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.mktp.cd)	Annual GDP by country	This dataset will be used for comparison to each country's suicide rates.
Worldwide Social Media Penetration Data (https://www.statista.com/statistics/282846/regular-social-networking-usage-penetration-worldwide-by-country/) (https://ourworldindata.org/internet)	Social Media Penetration by country Worldwide Internet access figures	This dataset will be used for comparison to each country's suicide rates.

RELATED WORKS

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DESIGN INSPIRATIONS

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PROPOSED STORYBOARD

Our proposed application will consist of four pages:

LANDING PAGE

Proposed Storyboard	Description
	This page will serve as an introduction to our problem and objectives, to give the viewer an overview of our project.

OVERVIEW

This page will provide the viewer with an overview of global suicide rates and overall happiness scores.

Proposed Storyboard	Description
Bar and Choropleth Map	Allows visualization of Worldwide Suicide Rate/Happiness Index Scores by year, sorted in ascending/descending order. Color of the bars and map will correspond to the Suicide Rate/Happiness Index Score of each country. This makes it easy to identify clusters or regions where suicide rates or happiness index scores tend to be high or low.
Comparison Chart	Summarises suicide rate/happiness index score changes across selected years
Slope Graph	Compares suicide rate and happiness index rankings of each country over the years.

DEMOGRAPHICS

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SOCIOECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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PROJECT TIMELINE

KEY CHALLENGES

Challenge	Mitigation
No experience with this and that...	Cry and hope for the best
No time!!!!	Cry more

REFERENCES

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