Graphicacy: Data Visualization in 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, our team at Graphicacy is proud to have spent the year working to Visualize a Better World. We provided visual communications solutions to our mission-driven partners, who are tackling the world’s most pressing challenges: COVID, refugee resettlement, climate change, growing economic inequality, and the 2020 election.
John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
This year, data visualization has taken on new relevance, as people are inundated with data and information about the COVID pandemic. In a crowded field of innovative data visualization solutions, Graphicacy’s team has been privileged to be the data visualization partner of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on their Coronavirus Resource Center, named one of the Best Inventions of 2020 and 2020’s Go-To Data Source by Time magazine.
Through our partnership with JHU, the Graphicacy team delivered easy-to-digest and informative visualizations for a site that has hosted billions of interactions daily by government agencies, public health departments, the general public and news outlets.
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
In addition to our work with the JHU COVID project, we have been working with the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health’s International Vaccine Access Center, to redesign their revolutionary online platform, VIEW-hub, a one-stop resource for global vaccine data. Through our partnership, we made crucial data more accessible to researchers, policymakers, public health officials, and program funders just as the world faces the monumental task of distributing the COVID vaccines.
The US Census Bureau’s Opportunity Project 2020
Our work in 2020 has not only been focused on health data. We also joined The Opportunity Project, hosted by the United States Census Bureau’s Census Open Innovation Lab, and partnered with USA for UNHCR and Mapbox to build the Resettled Refugee Services and Data Explorer. Through this pro bono project we designed and engineered a platform that connects resettled refugees with resources and vital services, such as access to medical care and mental health treatment, English language learning, job training, and education.
2020 Year in Review
Throughout the year, we also had the pleasure of working with the Economic Innovation Group to bring their Distressed Communities Index report to life; One Earth to visualize the impact of climate change; the Afterschool Alliance to tell the visual story of afterschool care and the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working America, Ipsos and the team at Grassroots Analytics to visualize election data for one of the most pivotal elections in our lifetimes.
As we close out this year, we are fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with amazing client partners to help explain many important issues through data visualization. We look toward 2021 with a hope for a renewed focus on more data-driven and fact-based decision-making and are ready to expand our role in helping our clients visually communicate that data.
For those of you that we have yet to work with, contact our team and let us help you tell your story with an engaging website, application, or visualization.
