The ideal situation occurs when the things that we regard as beautiful are also regarded by other people as useful.

--Donald Knuth

Oh yes indeed!

  Stacked graphs–geometry & aesthetics - Byron et al 2008

References

Byron, Lee and Wattenberg, Martin (2008) ‘Stacked Graphs – Geometry & Aesthetics’, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6), pp. 1245–1252, [online] Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2008.166 (Accessed 30 April 2013).

Van Horn, John Darrell, Irimia, Andrei, Torgerson, Carinna M., Chambers, Micah C., et al. (2012) ‘Mapping Connectivity Damage in the Case of Phineas Gage’, PLoS ONE, 7(5), [online] Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353935/ (Accessed 30 April 2013).

Dementia gender assocation

From a table of the combined top-10 of the male and female cause of death by percentage in England and Wales from the ONS 2010 annual mortality report, it can be seen that the women are much more likely to be registered with Dementia as their "final cause of death" @todo



I am interested to know how much of the high number of registered Dementia deaths for women is a result of the age-gender distribution of the population, and how much is from direct gender specific factors.

Causes of death in the UK (mortality statistics)

I'm always blathering about cause of death, particularly in terms of odds-ratio relating to some factor that I have just read about, so I thought it would be useful to capture some of the headline facts and create a list of some useful data sources.