Well, I didn't buy some of what they were saying, so I sought to discover the truth about cannabinoids. How many are there? How are they created in the cannabis plant? What is the scientific evidence for the alleged benefits they provide? See my poster below for the answers (also for sale in my etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/dataworthseeing)
While I was living in Alaska a few years ago, the state made the decision to legalize recreational marijuana. As a result, marijuana became a popular topic of discussion around town, and people started to wax poetic about the benefits of this strain versus that strain, and how CBD vs. THC vs. other cannabinoids could be beneficial in different ways.
Well, I didn't buy some of what they were saying, so I sought to discover the truth about cannabinoids. How many are there? How are they created in the cannabis plant? What is the scientific evidence for the alleged benefits they provide? See my poster below for the answers (also for sale in my etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/dataworthseeing)
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A few years ago I designed this piece of art, inspired by the term "DNA fingerprint" used in evolutionary biology, forensics, and other fields where individuals or species need to be identified using genetic data. It's not an infographic per se... but it uses real data and I love the way it looks.
This poster is for sale on my etsy page: https://www.etsy.com/shop/dataworthseeing This info visualization project was inspired by a facebook post claiming that there is "no evidence" of discrimination against black or African American individuals by the criminal justice system.
Well, here's some of the evidence, based on data published in the "Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System," available at https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/?fbclid=IwAR1DbUZDvROMljWUItyX1xoxnhXHLTzQGDjrHFreZgxcseu79ofIJqBS5Fs I've been playing around with different data visualization formats. Here's one about the origins of 25 major diseases, which I think is timely in the age of coronavirus!
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AuthorI'm Katie Everson, a postdoc at the University of Kentucky. Archives
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