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JULY 28, 2021

Tags: baseline , change , coronavirus , STAT. There are some valleys. Emory Parker for STAT shifted the focus to how quickly the rate is changing , or acceleration, to emphasize which direction rates are headed.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , flags , physical , Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg. There were over a quarter of a million flags at the time. The art installation is back at the National Mall, but this time there are over 660,000 flags. The scale is just… a lot.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , vaccination. Vaccine supply is only part of the equation. For The New York Times, Keith Collins and Josh Holder looked at distribution of available doses in countries , categorized by income group.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Tags: coronavirus , Giorgia Lupi , long Covid , New York Times In 2015, Lupi worked on Dear Data , which focused on the little joys of life through visualization-based postcards. This moving piece uses a similar style but is on the opposite end of the emotional spectrum. Worth your time.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , India , Reuters , vaccine. Modi’s government placed the first advance order for an unapproved vaccine only this month, after being criticised for being slow. Countries including the United States and Britain signed orders last year.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tags: billionaires , Bloomberg , coronavirus , wealth. Bloomberg zeros in on the billionaires whose net worth increased and then decreased because of the life changes. The chart above uses scaled bubbles to show the shifts from peak to present. The horizontal axis represents percentage change since the end of 2019.

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FlowingData

JANUARY 31, 2022

Tennis player Novak Djokovic is not vaccinated against the coronavirus, and as a result, was not allowed to compete in the Australian Open. Tags: BBC , coronavirus , Novak Djokovic , tennis. The only outlier of all the confirmation codes we’ve plotted was Mr Djokovic’s positive test on 16 December.

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JULY 28, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , time use. The slope charts show overall averages, so it would be an interesting next step to look at more granular variations. I suspect you’d see more pronounced shifts.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Tags: coronavirus , politics , vaccination , Vox. Vox shows how ideas shifted to get to where we are now. The 1990s elementary school aesthetic with markers and overhead projector slides works well here. The choices guide you step-by-step through the data points.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , Simpson's Paradox , vaccination. If you’re unfamiliar, Simpson’s Paradox is when a trend appears in separate groups but then disappears or reverses when you combine the groups. In this case, the confounding factors of age and vaccine uptake makes the above chart useless.

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MAY 24, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , vaccination , Washington Post. When you look at only those who are not vaccinated, the rates are still high in many areas of the country. Dan Keating and Leslie Shapiro for The Washington Post show the differences.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , New York Times. Covid-19 now accounts for a much larger share of all deaths for that group than it did before vaccines were widely available. In a series of slope charts, each multiple shows a group, and the background color indicates an increase (red) or a decrease (gray) in deaths among that group.

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Noupe

JUNE 8, 2021

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic hitting restaurants hard, owners had to adapt to survive. Ask customers to recreate one of your recipes and tag you on Instagram. If there’s one thing the Coronavirus pandemic has taught restaurant owners worldwide, they have to be ready for anything and learn to adapt fast. Conclusion.

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FlowingData

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , rate , scale , Washington Post. With millions of Covid-19 deaths worldwide, and hundreds of thousands in the US, the absolute counts have been a challenge to relate to for a while. The Washington Post leaned into rates to communicate scale at the individual level. 1 in 500 Americans died from Covid-19 so far.

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JULY 15, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , Reuters , vaccination. The set of difference charts took me a minute to digest, but then seems straightforward after. More orange fill means much slower than the initial vaccination rate, and more green fill means a bigger bump after a lull.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

From Maastricht University : What happens if a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus enters your lung? Tags: coronavirus , Maastricht University. This molecular animation visualises how the virus particle can take over the host cell and turns it into a virus factory. Aw, such a cute little, life-altering virus. via kottke ].

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FlowingData

AUGUST 2, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , vaccination. Also of interest: NYT managed to squeeze in a bar chart race, a Marimekko chart, and a beeswarm chart all in the same article. That’s gotta be a record for them.

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MAY 13, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , migration , USPS , Wall Street Journal. As shown through other views , a lot of the movement wasn’t out of the ordinary, but in some areas — mainly San Francisco and New York — the pandemic appeared to motivate people a little more to move.

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JULY 21, 2021

Tags: comparison , coronavirus , unvaccinated , Washington Post. A dotted line shows the adjusted national rate, a black dashed line shows how the current rate is a step back to a previous time, and a smaller, zoomed out version of the chart in the top right provides context back to March 2020.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Tags: coronavirus , NPR , omicron. So the numbers have meaning, but it is a different public health impact when someone is mildly ill or doesn’t even have symptoms than when someone is severely ill. The numbers are up but they don’t mean the same thing from when the numbers were up last time.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Such “negative framing” can change impressions: “90% fat-free” sounds rather different than “10% fat” Tags: booster , coronavirus , Guardian , risk , vaccination. That is a major, although uncertain, increase in risk.

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Design Week

APRIL 22, 2021

Product shortages as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have only served to make the issue worse, and the group says black women and women of colour are affected at higher rates. The tag line for the project is: “End a sentence, start a revolution.” Abstract and literal.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Tags: baseline , coronavirus , vaccination. But we know these things reduce the chances of dying in a car crash, of getting an STI, and having high cholesterol, so we adjust our choices. via @ visualisingdata ].

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Tags: Bloomberg , coronavirus , dashboard. So groups worked with what they had. On the other end, everyone checking these dashboards on the daily were getting their own lessons in interpreting trends, missing data, and variation.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Tags: China , coronavirus , deaths , illustration , New York Times So, for The New York Times, Pablo Robles, Vivian Wang, and Joy Dong evaluated the change in scale of scholars’ obituaries , which appears to correlate with China’s restriction timeline.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Tags: coronavirus , dashboard , nature. “An emphasis on ‘confirmed’ is really important because we know that it’s an underestimate of the total,” says Ritchie. “It It might seem very basic, but it’s really crucial to how you understand the data and the scale of the pandemic.”.

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MAY 21, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , vaccination. The risk of side effects is very low (especially when you compare to the everyday things we do to live), your risk of infection or hospitalization goes way down when you get vaccinated, and you don’t have to pay anything.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Tags: Atlantic , baseline , coronavirus , mortality. On May 24, 2020, as the United States passed 100,000 recorded deaths, The New York Times filled its front page with the names of the dead, describing their loss as “incalculable.” Now the nation hurtles toward a milestone of 1 million. What is 10 times incalculable?

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Tags: coronavirus , mask , N95 , Washington Post. My wife, who is a healthcare worker, described how she and her colleagues would have to reuse N95 masks and store them in paper bags hanging on the wall. It’s good to see so many N95s on their way to households now.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Tags: coronavirus , pandemic , Washington Post. There’s also a multiple-choice element to the piece, which helps readers relate personally, but I think it’s mostly there as a way to reveal the full answer breakdowns. Projects like this one always remind me of World of 100.

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Just Creative

MAY 6, 2020

Up to 25% of small businesses in the US may fail because of the coronavirus. You can also spruce up your ads, social media and website by using coronavirus-related symbols. Good news: you can still do that – though in a new, post-coronavirus way. Add meta tags to your pages, posts and images. Include them (sparingly!)

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MARCH 29, 2022

For NYT Opinion, researchers Sarah Cobey, Jesse Bloom, and Tyler Starr, along with NYT graphics editor Nathaniel Lash, discuss the potential mutations for the coronavirus. Tags: amino acids , coronavirus , mutation , New York Times. The accompanying graphic zooms in on the amino acids that allow the virus infect human cells.

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Design Week

MAY 13, 2020

Rishi Sunak has unveiled plans to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) until the end of October. The scheme was originally introduced back in March , in a bid to soften the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic on the UK’s economy. With an estimated 7.5 With an estimated 7.5

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , London , sonification. When people are moving around the city a lot, you hear the bassline move faster. During lockdown, when people were confined to their homes, it slows to a single beat for each bar.

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FlowingData

JANUARY 7, 2022

Tags: coronavirus , New York Times. I’m gathering my thoughts, but I think it’s fine for two main reasons: (1) it’s a lead-in to an opinion piece and (2) it’s not trying to replace the straight-up linear views that we’ve grown uncomfortably familiar with over two-plus years.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , supply. Goodman for The New York Times used a flowchart to explain how the world’s supply chains got to where they are now. The scroll takes you through the set of intertwining variables.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Tags: coronavirus , Delta variant , Lauren Letherby , New York Times , vaccination. It’s especially problematic when people are actively trying to confirm misconceptions. For The New York Times, Lauren Leatherby tries to make things clearer imagining two groups: one that is 20% vaccinated and one that is 95% vaccinated.

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