Understanding Antibiotic Consumption
A Data Storytelling of the Global Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance
Timeline
12 weeks
Responsibilities
Ethics Submission, Survey Design, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Academic Writing, Visual Design
Supervisor
Problem
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health concern stemming from the misuse of antibiotics over many decades. Gaining more insights into people’s behaviour and attitudes towards antibiotic consumption can help identify interventions to improve stewardship approaches, and professional and personal practices for the future.
Design Challenge / Research Goals
Explore how data visualisations can present global health information such as for AMR.
Create an interactive data storytelling dashboard of human behaviour and attitude towards antibiotic use.
Solution
Using a Design Research method – an online questionnaire, information about people’s habits around antibiotic consumption was collected. The project aimed to visualise people’s antibiotic consumption habits over a period of time to help monitor successes or failures of various levels of interventions in curbing AMR. The results of the survey of 104 participants were analysed and presented in a series of five connected interactive data visualisations. The survey and visualisations could be used as tools for the future over longer periods of time and identify if interventions are achieving the desired results.
