Investigative reporting in the digital age: coronavirus outbreak in China

One of the current topics is the situation with the coronavirus outbreak in China. All the world's media are writing about it. The main information - the number of illnesses, distribution (there is a site where you can monitor the situation online), symptoms. All these data have been visualized by the media

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/coronavirus-symptoms-vaccines-risks-200122194509687.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51048366

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de Usuario eliminado - domingo, 23 de febrero de 2020, 23:49

Hey Gaukhar, Thanks for pointing to this story. The use of multiple data visualisations and animations has clarified a very complex issue - the timeline and mapping are kept simple which made them flow and most importantly easy to follow. Great stuff.

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de Usuario eliminado - lunes, 24 de febrero de 2020, 04:38

Indeed this is an excellent topic nowadays to study the power of datascience and datajournalism .

A very interesting website is https://worldometers.info/coronavirus

You can see a graph (absolute and logarithmic), with numbers of patients

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de Usuario eliminado - lunes, 24 de febrero de 2020, 04:59

The covid-19 outbreak is one of the world's biggest stories. Economist Magazine looked at it from a different angle in the article below. While most publications are, rightly, focussing on the spread of the virus and the consequent fatality rate, this article uses big data to look at how effective different types of government are at dealing with similar emergencies.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/02/18/diseases-like-covid-19-are-deadlier-in-non-democracies

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