Tracking every Coronavirus Case in the U.S.

Tracking every Coronavirus Case in the U.S.

by Deleted user -
Number of replies: 2

Here's the link: 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article


What I liked about this article is the use of several different charts to help understand different aspects of the  Coronavirus spread. They used it to make the story more interactive, to make it easy to understand, and easy to get the information some are looking for quickly. 


There's a map to understand the spread, and concentration of cases, as well as a bar graph to compare how quickly the virus is spreading on a day to day basis, and an excel type sheet to quantify which places have the most cases and deaths. There's one more excel type sheet to explain how cases were first contracted. 



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Re: Tracking every Coronavirus Case in the U.S.

by Deleted user -

Yes, I thought this story was useful in that it provided different ways of visualizing and understanding the information and context about what the data meant. It was also scannable in the sense that the data broke the article up, and if the reader was looking for something specific, it was easy to find that info without reading a lengthy, dense article.

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Re: Tracking every Coronavirus Case in the U.S.

by Alexandros Georgiadis -

Nice article and choice, comparable to the 'Coronavirus map: Tracking cases in the U.S. and around the world - The Washington Post' (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/22/mapping-spread-new-coronavirus).

The differences are exactly where the WP article fails: it includes daily US Cases and Cases' Sources.

Sadly, both the chart and map lack interactivity, which could add to the experience.