I have a lot of books stacked on my desk. It’s kind of embarrassing. Now seems like a good as time as any to read them.
Nathan Yau
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Visualization Books in My Queue (The Process 084)
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Slowing down the rate of deaths, aka breaking the wave
For Reuters, Jon McClure looks at the death counts for each country from…
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DIY masks, balancing filtration and breathability
The CDC now recommends that you wear a cloth face mask if you…
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Change in internet usage since the virus
Your schedule changed. The time spent in front of or using a screen…
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Animated map for total coronavirus deaths over time
For The New York Times, Lazaro Gamio and Karen Yourish use an animated…
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Not making Covid-19 charts
Will Chase, who specialized in visualization for epidemiological studies in grad school, outlined…
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Different cough coverings, varying air spread
From researchers at Bauhaus-University Weimar, this video shows how various methods of covering…
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Social distancing isn’t available for everyone
For Reuters, Chris Canipe looks at social distancing from the perspective of household…
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Useful Distractions for Chartmakers – The Process 083
Here are some useful distractions for you as you stay-at-home and wait for an unknown amount of time.
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County stay-at-home orders and change in distance traveled
Based on cellphone data from Cuebiq, The New York Times looked at how…
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Maps of grounded flights after Covid-19
As you would expect, not many people are flying these days. The Washington…
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Challenges of making a reliable Covid-19 model
Fatalities from Covid-19 range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. Nobody…
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Evolution of Census questions
On the surface, the decennial census seems straightforward. Count everyone in the country…
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Simulating an epidemic
3Blue1Brown goes into more of the math of SIR models — which drive…
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Toilet Paper Calculator
Maybe you’re starting to run low. Here’s how much you’ll need when you go to restock.
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Coronavirus data at the state and county level, from The New York Times
Comprehensive national data on Covid-19 has been hard to come by through government…
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Now pull
A comic by Marcos Balfagón attaches action to the curve.…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, March 2020 Roundup – The Process 082
Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources to help you work better or more efficiently. Here’s the good stuff for March.
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Unemployment spike
The Department of Labor released the numbers for last week’s unemployment filings. 3.28…
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Johns Hopkins providing course on using epidemiology to understand the Covid-19 numbers
The numbers are fuzzy. You take them at face value, and you end…