Linking Open Government Data

This demo is part of the Population Sciences Grid Project. For more information, please contact Professor Deborah McGuinness.

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Using the demo: Press play () in the chart below to show how each State's Cigarette Tax ($) and Smoking Ban Coverage (%) changes from 1994 to 2007. The size of the circles corresponds to the percentage of smokers in the state, while the color of the circles corresponds to a "High", "Intermediate", or "Low" degree of the same quantity. The time point shown can be adjusted using the slider at the bottom of this chart.

Timelines: Tax and Cost per Pack (US $), Smoking Prevalance, and Degree of Smoking Ban Coverage (%)

To view these measures for a different state, select it here: .

Contributors

National Cancer Institute Abdul R. Shaikh Richard Moser Bradford W. Hesse Glen D. Morgan Erik M. Augustson Yvonne Hunt Zaria Tatalovich Gordon Willis Kelly Blake Paul Courtney (contractor) Lila Finney (contractor) Amy Sanders (contractor)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Deborah L. McGuinness Li Ding Tim Lebo Jim McCusker Northwestern University Noshir Contractor Yun Huang Hugh Devlin York Yao

Uses Dataset: 

impacteen-org tobacco-control-policy-and-prevalence 2009-Jun-09

Uses Dataset: 

nci-nih-gov tobacco-law-coverage 2010-Aug-25

Uses Technology: 

JQuery

Uses Technology: 

Javascript

Uses Technology: 

Google Visualization API

Uses SPARQL Query: 

http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/test/tax-cost-policy-prevalence/rq/all-4.rq

Uses SPARQL Endpoint: 

http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/sparql

Screen Shot: 

http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/images/screenshot/demo-tobacco-policy-tax-cost-policy-pre...

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