Causes
Impacts
Responses
The Language of Obesity
by Leah Welch
How do we talk about obesity in different countries? This visualization examines how YouTube users describe videos about obesity in Kuwait, Mexico and Tonga, where a surge of obesity is currently generating public health crisis. The aggregation of over 2500 video descriptions reveals common themes related to the causes of, impacts of, and responses to obesity.
Top occurring words, organized by theme, create the bulging representation of this epidemic.
Every 10 instances of a theme creates 1 line.
Dotted lines mark every 100 instances of that theme.
