Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social Sciences
In trying to explain why Hong Kong of China ranks highest in life expectancy in the world, we review what various experts are hypothesizing, and how data science methods may be used to provide more evidence-based conclusions. While more data become available, we find some data analysis studies were...
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| description | In trying to explain why Hong Kong of China ranks highest in life expectancy in the world, we review what various experts are hypothesizing, and how data science methods may be used to provide more evidence-based conclusions. While more data become available, we find some data analysis studies were too simplistic, while others too overwhelming in answering this challenging question. We find the approach that analyzes life expectancy related data (mortality causes and rate for different cohorts) inspiring, and use this approach to study a carefully selected set of targets for comparison. In discussing the factors that matter, we argue that it is more reasonable to try to identify a set of factors that together explain the phenomenon. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-07cbbd82ce214a0790d07ab00a7ccf0b2022-12-22T02:45:35ZengTsinghua University PressJournal of Social Computing2688-52552022-09-013325026110.23919/JSC.2022.0009Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social SciencesTing Xu0Ming-sum Tsui1Dah Ming Chiu2Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaFelizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaDepartment of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and also with Data Science Research Center, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaIn trying to explain why Hong Kong of China ranks highest in life expectancy in the world, we review what various experts are hypothesizing, and how data science methods may be used to provide more evidence-based conclusions. While more data become available, we find some data analysis studies were too simplistic, while others too overwhelming in answering this challenging question. We find the approach that analyzes life expectancy related data (mortality causes and rate for different cohorts) inspiring, and use this approach to study a carefully selected set of targets for comparison. In discussing the factors that matter, we argue that it is more reasonable to try to identify a set of factors that together explain the phenomenon.https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/JSC.2022.0009life expectancydata sciencesocial sciencepopulation |
| spellingShingle | Ting Xu Ming-sum Tsui Dah Ming Chiu Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social Sciences Journal of Social Computing life expectancy data science social science population |
| title | Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social Sciences |
| title_full | Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social Sciences |
| title_fullStr | Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social Sciences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social Sciences |
| title_short | Why Hong Kong Ranks Highest in Life Expectancy: Looking for Answers from Data Science and Social Sciences |
| title_sort | why hong kong ranks highest in life expectancy looking for answers from data science and social sciences |
| topic | life expectancy data science social science population |
| url | https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/JSC.2022.0009 |
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