Launched on Christmas Eve 2020, these "overview" charts tracking concentrations of covid and other pathogens sampled from sewage continue to be used daily to inform the decisions of public health...
When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore.
As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...
They were the first ones on the dance floor, the first in their families to immigrate to the United States, the first to lend a helping hand or words of support. Grandma, Pop Pop, Butterfly, Coach,...
I am a Japanese data visualization designer and researcher. This entry has been made by me as a member of public. I visualized the COVID-19 situation, which was not reported in detail in the...
The project was done and published during my master program study at NYU Journalism Institute. In that semester, right after COVID first broke out in NYC, our cohort decided to create a web...
This experimental work I did in memory of the deceased inhabitants of Russia. The bars and curves of the standard graphs faintly reflect the drama of people's deaths. While searching for a visual...
This piece was inspired by the many friends, acquaintances, and colleagues I have spoken to over the last 12-18 months about the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. As an Epidemiologist at...
As Covid-19 swept across the world, it mutated into several major groups, or strains, as it adapted to its human hosts. Mapping and understanding those changes to the virus is crucial to developing...
This visualization presents a nationwide rising tide of anti-Asian bias during the height of the pandemic. The data are based on a national report published by Stop AAPI Hate, an alliance that has...
This article, published on the anniversary of Australia’s first documented cases of COVID-19, uses a national dataset of every confirmed coronavirus case (a dataset built by our team) to tell the...
The Pandemic Poachers cross-border investigation was reported by 13 journalists from the InfoNile network in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and South Sudan over one year and contains original data...
It all started when some of my closest friends and I tested positive for COVID back in December 2021. We tried to keep track of who was the one who had the first symptoms, but the information got...
This visualisation shows the outbreak of covid 19 in the southern region of India during the lockdown 1.0 & 2.0 i.e from 25 March 2020 to 03 May 2020. The intervals of lockdown are arranged in...
By the end of 2019, the new coronavirus pneumonia began to spread rapidly. As of March 9,2020, a total of 576 confirmed cases had been reported in Chongqing. In order to present the situation of...
Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. Leslie Shapiro and I marked one million deaths in America from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the...
It is Due Time for a Change - A Victory in Our Name!
Across countries and continents, for the young and the old, of all ages and sizes - let hope alight! The world has witnessed the doom and gloom...
As COVID-19 began to spread in the U.S. in March 2020, Trump administration officials estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Americans might die. A worst-case scenario, they said, meant between 1.6 million...
A personal data visualisation exploring the relationship between different variables that were documented daily throughout the UK’s first national lockdown as a result of COVID-19. The power of...
A week before to receive the first dose of the vaccine for Covid-19 I was diagnosed with the disease. Guided by doctors to stay at home and monitor variations in temperature and oxygenation, I also...
Since the first Covid-19 outbreak happened in 2019, daily routines and how people interact with the environments around the globe have changed. These changes often go unnoticed. The purpose of this...
The Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford collated every government intervention made during the COVID 19 Pandemic. Visualising this data allows us to understand the timeline...
In a pandemic, it's critical that the community understands the nature of the threat to make informed decisions. But too often, science communication is impenetrable.
In this piece we combined...
Scientists say the pandemic will end in the U.S. only when we achieve what's called herd immunity. Play with our simulations to see how immunity can stop an outbreak in its tracks. We explain a...
The fear of an “unknown” illness without a definitive cure creates uncertainty, leading to anxiety and increased sharing of misinformation. Thus any senseless forward of a message, meme or video...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, data visualization has been a political battleground. Well-known graphics like "Flatten the Curve" played a central role in early public health messaging around...
“Quaran.tiles” is the physical representation of a collection of expressive geotags created on Instagram in 2020 as a response to quarantines during the first wave of infections of COVID-19. Due to...
A hyperlocal cooperative simulation game that shows how a hypothetical infectious disease might spread through a very real community. It uses real population and hospital data based on the provided...
Experts suggest it may take the development of multiple vaccines, and two doses of vaccine for each person, possibly annually, to begin the process of protecting the world’s population from...
Reuters transformed printed Covid-19 case data into a slick, browser rendered animation of Singapore's explosive worker dormitory clusters. The piece documents and explains how and where clusters...
Many drugs have been evaluated for treating patients with covid-19 at different disease severities. The resulting research has been published in enormous quantities at unprecedented speeds. To make...