Best Way to Promote Positive Mental Health
Best Way to Promote Positive Mental Health
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Project 594
Project Info
Team Name
Toms Misfits
Team Members
5 members with unpublished profiles.
Project Description
A responsive dashboard that displays mental health data for the government and other relevant parties so they can see how their efforts are effecting the overall mental health of the citizens.
Data Story
Our project was to construct a way to promote positive mental health via awareness, which New Zealand is currently lacking.
The first task we underwent was delving into online public data to understand how the people of New Zealand are feeling, and which region they live in. Problems were immediately uncovered. Finding specific data is never easy, but we were trying to find data that was both sensitive, and in some cases private; Or worse, non-existent.
The data we did find, was broken, fractured, and led to horrifying revelation.
Our real problem was the lack of data, therefore our solution wasn’t to raise awareness of mental health but to raise awareness of the lack of data surrounding it.
You can’t promote something you can’t understand.
The data that we did find was reprocessed multiple times to filter out information that wasn't needed and converted in to formats that can be used in graphs and general stat tables.
Team DataSets
Health - All indicators of adults health by DHB (prevalence) 2011–2017
Description of Use This data was used to find the percentages of depression that have been diagnosed in each region of New Zealand split out by Genders.
Mental Health - Suicide deaths and rates by sex and age group 2007–2016
Description of Use This data was used to find the total suicides per year for New Zealand grouped by different age categories.
WellBeing Statistics 2019
Description of Use This DataSet was used in the final prototype to provide the Overall Life Satisfaction percentage and The life worth percentage (Based on a 0-6, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 rating) for each region in New Zealand (Only Hawkes Bay & Auckland were used).
Challenge Entries
Innovate New Zealand
Best innovative hack using Stats NZ data
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Most Artistic use of data (outside the box)
Most Artistic use of data (outside the box)
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