Data Visualization’s Breakthrough Moment in the COVID-19 Crisis

The discipline has made some important contributions over its 300-year history, but perhaps none more so than now

During the COVID-19 crisis, data visualization researchers and professionals rose to the challenge, delivering widely used tools for public explanations, pandemic modeling, and government policy-making. These interactive data visualizations inform the public and guide decision-makers to save lives. Spirited debates center on “flattening…