2020 Online Salon
Suicidal Ideation in Indigenous Canada
Project Details
- Entrant Name: Julia Devorak
- Membership Type: Student Submission
- Address: Toronto, Ontario Canada
- Client: Faculty advisor: Jodie Jenkinson
- Copyright: 2019 Julia Devorak
- Medium/software used: Tableau, Adobe Illustrator
- Final presentation format: web (1366 x 786px screen resolution)
- Primary Audience: general public
Project Description
Mental health is a pressing yet often overlooked health care issue in Canada’s Indigenous populations, who face a unique set of mental health challenges. This data visualization communicates the prevalence of suicidal ideation in Canada’s Indigenous groups and is intended for use in an Indigenous mental health awareness campaign. The piece aims to use audience-appropriate visual representations of quantitative information to enable derivation of meaningful insights about Indigenous suicide ideation, which would be difficult to glean by simply looking at the raw data. Given the intended venue (web) and the anticipated consumption patterns of its target audience (general public), the graphics are designed to facilitate quick detection of patterns in the data and to enable general comparisons between groups of information, while maintaining representational accuracy and using culturally-significant colours. Data from the Canadian general population is provided for context, when available.
