Visual Analytics of the Organic Food Expenditure and the Disease Mortality Rate in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Cheng-Wei Tang, 湯呈緯
• Other Authors: Chien-Wen Shen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k27883

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 企業管理學系 === 105 === Organic is a way of respecting and protecting our environment. In the light of the food safety issues have been arisen in recent years in Taiwan, the demand of organic food from people in Taiwan has been increasing. With the assistance of data visualization, clustering analysis and correlation analysis, the major purpose of this research was tried to figure out the organic food expenditure and the disease mortality rate from the perspectives of the visual analytics. In the past, research regarded on the issue between the organic food and health was conducted through the questionnaire and the relevant research was scarce in Taiwan. Instead of distributing the questionnaire, this research utilizes the E-invoice data retrieved from Fiscal Information Agency and the raw data of death tolls from government open data platform in Taiwan. Through the scatter plot, clustering analysis and the correlation analysis, result of this research demonstrated that except the Parkinson’s disease, all the disease had a negative correlation among mortality rate and organic food expenditure, which means that consuming higher organic food would have relatively lower mortality rate of disease. Especially, heart disease and malignant trachea, bronchus and lung had significantly negative correlation. With the findings of this research, it can provide Taiwan government as an evidence to increase the hectare of organic agriculture since consuming more organic foods will be healthier.