Day to Day as a Cancer Patient

As a final project for a mapping and data visualization course, we were given the freedom to choose any topic that interested us. The challenge was choosing a topic that would give us the opportunity to create a visualization for it. 

Given my interest in healthcare innovation, I decided to focus my project on the day to day experience of a person living with cancer. I chose to focus on this because I had conducted some initial interviews with someone living with cancer and I heard from those interviews that no two cancer patients' experience are the same, nor are any two days of a cancer patient's experience.

Given the confidential nature of this project, I have omitted names and images taken during this process from my online portfolio, although I collected images during the process of this project to give a more holistic and human element to the research, I have left them out in order to protect the patient's identity. 

We began the process discussing what an emotional, spiritual, and psychological wellbeing meant for the patient. Next, I would establish a rating scale of 1 - 10 and ask them at various points throughout the day how they were feeling. I collected quotes from this and have displayed selected quotes at low points and high points of this patient's day.