Death-Certificate Atlas

An interactive companion to the paper on reclassification and weighting of multiple causes of death in U.S. certificates (2003–2023). Explore category shifts, temporal dynamics, and transition pathways with live visualizations driven by repository data.

2026-03-21 provenance update: a follow-up audit found that an earlier AI-generated discrepancy memo mostly compared the manuscript against the wrong regenerated run variant (`Dup==Empty_last` instead of values aligned with `Dup==Empty_first`). The only confirmed manuscript-only mismatch from that review was the age-65+ Table 4 sentence for COVID reductions (`64%` / `57%` in text vs `63%` / `56%` in the table/workbook).

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Burden Landscape Through Time

Stacked area trajectories across categories. Toggle categories to inspect contribution shifts.

Constellation of Causes

Each bubble is a broad category for one year: x = reclassification change (%), y = share of deaths, size = absolute burden.

Seasonality Heatmap

Monthly intensity by year for one category.

Flow Theater

Entity-to-Record transition pathways. Hover to inspect dominant routes.

Relative Reclassification Impact

Percent change from Entity to Record axis by category.

Claim Validation Explorer

Search and filter claim checks from the canonical computational validation report. This panel is not the same thing as the manuscript provenance re-audit linked above.

Claim Expected Observed Diff Tol Status

Top Transition Table

Largest transition counts currently visible under flow filters.

From (Entity) To (Record) Count