COVID-19 Visualizations
We will first start with a discussion on the incredible care required when visualizing something like this:
Twitter thread
March 5, 2020 by Evan Peck, CS professor at Bucknell University, HCI and data visualization researcher, teaches CS ethics.
https://twitter.com/EvanMPeck/status/1235568532840120321
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Ten Considerations Before You Create Another Chart About COVID-19
March 11, 2020 by Amanda Makulec for Nightingale
Links to an external site., data visualization professional, advocates data visualization for social good, experience as a public health analyst.
https://medium.com/nightingale/ten-considerations-before-you-create-another-chart-about-covid-19-27d3bd691be8
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Then we will look at three different approaches to visualizing the COVID-19 outbreak. First we will look at the trending "flattening the curve" phrase and #FlattenTheCurve hashtag.
The story behind ‘flatten the curve,’ the defining chart of the coronavirus
March 13, 2020 by Mark Wilson for FastCompany.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90476143/the-story-behind-flatten-the-curve-the-defining-chart-of-the-coronavirus
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Flattening the Curve and Expanding My Understanding
March 13, 2020 by Andy Krackov for Nightingale.
https://medium.com/nightingale/flattening-the-curve-and-expanding-my-understanding-70a6c1fb671e
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We will also look into some deep-dive explainers:
Which Country Has Flattened the Curve for the Coronavirus?
March 19, 2020 by K.K. Rebecca Lai and Keith Collins for the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/world/coronavirus-flatten-the-curve-countries.html
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Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to "flatten the curve"
March 14, 2020 by Harry Stevens for the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator
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And we will look at two other popular views using log scales:
COVID-19 spread in real-time
Center for Systems Science and Engineering at John Hopkins University
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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Coronavirus deaths by country
John Burn-Murdoch for Financial Times.
https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441
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https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch
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