David Spiegelhalter on communicating a crisis:
There are some basic principles, which I…
Nathan Yau
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Communicating a crisis
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For Everyone Else
In a Channel 4 clip, Hugh Montgomery does some back-of-the-napkin math contrasting the normal flu against the coronavirus. Here’s a chart version.
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Break the chain
For The Spinoff, Toby Morris illustrates how individuals can break a chain of…
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Particle flows show how the coronavirus ramped up
Using a combination of estimates based on cell phone movements and outbreak size,…
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Wheel of emotional words, in case you’re having trouble finding the words these days
You’re probably feeling a range of emotions these days. It helps if you…
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Deer crossing across highway corridors
With the climate changing, animals will need to migrate to different areas to…
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Coronavirus Explained and What You Should Do
Kurzgesagt, which make videos to explain complex and abstract concepts in an understandable…
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How washing your hands for 20 seconds does the trick
Vox used a lotion that mimics viruses to demonstrate the power of washing…
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Restaurant struggles
The restaurant industry is taking a big hit right now, as most people…
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Simulating the Unknown; Working From Home – The Process 081
We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but we can look at what we do know and make our best guess.
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Hospital bed occupancy
Using estimates from the Harvard Global Health Institute, The Upshot mapped what hospital…
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Understanding data and statistics in the medical literature
Jeffrey Leek, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, and Elizabeth Matsui have a free/ pay-what-you-want book…
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How to Flatten the Curve, a Social Distancing Simulation and Tutorial
Using R, we look at how your decreased interaction with others can help slow the spread of infectious diseases.
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Lagging coronavirus testing in the US
Coronavirus testing in the United States has been a slow process to say…
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Possible coronavirus deaths compared against other causes
Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the…
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Simulations for virus spread with social distancing
Social distancing is the game plan these days. Try to stay at home…
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Change in foot traffic in outbreak cities
From The Economist, this chart shows the (mostly) decrease in foot traffic in…
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Coronavirus, a Visual Rundown – The Process 080
We’re seeing a lot of visual to help explain what’s going on. Here’s the main stuff: what it is, who is affected, the spread, and what we can do.
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A view of the coronavirus outbreak through data
There’s a lot of figures and numbers floating around about the coronavirus disease.…
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How gears work
Bartosz Ciechanowski took a deep dive into how gears work and the physics…