Welcome to our dashboard for visualizing pharmaceutical drug spending across the world! We created an intuitive tool to help healthcare policy administrators across the world to make knowlegeable decisions around drug price policies. This dashboard takes in the scattered worldwide information and presents it as a decision-ready intelligence for daily decision-making.
This project is based on Kaggle Pharmaceutical Drug Spending by countries data set, which originated from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collected data. With the data capped at 2016, this dashboard architechture can be easily integrated into a new data set.
Pharmaceutical spending is a critical aspect of global healthcare, influencing accessibility, affordability, and innovation in medicine. Government policymakers require clear and data-driven insights to make informed decisions about drug pricing, reimbursement policies, and budget allocations. Our dashboard aims to bridge the gap between raw data and actionable intelligence.
Pharmaceutical Spending Dashboard is hosted on the Render platform, and can be accessed here
- Choropleth Map (Top): Displays geographic distribution of spending.
- Time Series Chart (Bottom Left): Shows spending trends over time.
- Bar Graph (Bottom Right): Breaks down overall spending by countries.
- Summary statistics
The user can customize the view of the dashboard by interacting with:
- Global filters: Country and year selectors apply to all charts and summary statistics, keeping the dashboard focused on the selected region and time period.
- Local filters: Radio buttons allow users to choose the specific spending metric they want to explore, which will apply to all charts.
- All charts have tooltips to provide additional information about the data, which will be displayed upon hovering over the chart element of interest.
Jason Lee, Celine Habashy, Daria Khon, Catherine Meng
Clone this GitHub repository
git clone https://github.com/UBC-MDS/DSCI-532_2025_17_pharma_spend_dashboard
From the project root directory, create and activate the virtual environment
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate pharma_spend_dashboard
Run dashboard locally (To activate debug mode change the argument in app.run() to app.run(debug=True))
python src/app.py
You should see output "Your application is running on http://127.0.0.1:8050/". Copy the url into your browser to view the dashboard.
Limited testing has been performed. To run the test suite locally, use the following command:
pytest tests/
Feedback is welcomed! If you encounter an issue or would like to suggest new features, please let us know by opening a new issue via Issues tab. The new issue should have a descriptive title and a brief outline of the feedback.
Interested in contributing? Check out the contributing guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md. Please note that this project is released with a Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
Tunguz. "Pharmaceutical Drug Spending by Countries." Kaggle, Pharmaceutical Drug Spending by Countries Dataset, Accessed [2024-02-14].
pharma_spend_dashboard was created by Jason Lee, Celine Habashy, Daria Khon, Catherine Meng. It is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.