What I Learned From COVID-19 Data Visualization
Designers have tremendous power and responsibility to handle data and communicate the message visually through various media. The way two designers slice and present the data could make the stories in the two graphics look completely different. This hugely affects the perception and understanding of the viewers.
Today, we are flooded with all sorts of COVID-19 related information, visualized in various different ways. While it’s important to stay up to date with the latest information, I felt many visualizations that I see are often short-sighted, and lack a holistic perspective. Among the majority of these, I was able to find a few really good data visualizations that helped me understand a broader perspective. I’d like to share those with you.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a trying time for all of us. The complexities of the new reality spreading across the world have forced us all to come to terms with information that is unfamiliar, scary, and confusing.
We applaud Ryu for sharing his process of learning about the virus to make sense of the world around him. Like many data visualization designers, he chose to understand the pandemic through visualization data. While we don’t suggest he was “wrong” in his approach or in his logic, we would also like to offer some additional viewpoints throughout this…
