Scientists say the pandemic will end in the U.S. only when we achieve what's called herd immunity. Play with our simulations to see how immunity can stop an outbreak in its tracks. We explain a...
This piece is my re-envisioning of how we visualise humanitarian disasters like COVID-19. Given the rapidly growing nature of India's outbreak, I decided to draw attention to both its magnitude and...
MTA Ridership Changes due to COVID-19 recounts what happened to New York City during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Data visualization agency TWO-N began the project wanting to create...
This piece was inspired by the many friends, acquaintances, and colleagues I have spoken to over the last 12-18 months about the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. As an Epidemiologist at...
In a pandemic, it's critical that the community understands the nature of the threat to make informed decisions. But too often, science communication is impenetrable.
In this piece we combined...
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The objective of this project was to communicate a complex, authoritative, and interactive public-facing chronology of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, that showed the spread of...
As COVID-19 began to spread in the U.S. in March 2020, Trump administration officials estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Americans might die. A worst-case scenario, they said, meant between 1.6 million...
In the early stages of the covid-19 pandemic, there were confusing and conflicting messages about how best to keep transmission rates down in public places. Should we wash our hands? Wear a mask,...
Corona virus mutants are regularly popping up, but the common media reports did not give me a feeling for how dynamic the variant evolution really is. Only when I discovered a scientific preprint...
Faced with the health crisis of 2020, most countries have chosen to confine themselves, putting a sudden halt to most of their economic activities. What was the impact on the climate? Through the...
This experimental work I did in memory of the deceased inhabitants of Russia. The bars and curves of the standard graphs faintly reflect the drama of people's deaths. While searching for a visual...
We all felt the ways that 2020 upended normal life. At Condé Nast, we had a unique view into what types of content resonated most with people throughout the year. We took the top 1,000 articles and...
A hyperlocal cooperative simulation game that shows how a hypothetical infectious disease might spread through a very real community. It uses real population and hospital data based on the provided...
Which communities are the most vulnerable to COVID-19 and why? Where and how should we target resources or interventions to best mitigate the impacts of the pandemic? The Surgo Ventures Precision...
This visualization shows the symptomatic journey of 1 million COVID cases from diagnosis to the long COVID range of 16-20 weeks. At each 4 week juncture, a sankey treatment is used to show how case...
As Covid-19 swept across the world, it mutated into several major groups, or strains, as it adapted to its human hosts. Mapping and understanding those changes to the virus is crucial to developing...
The COVID-19 Impact and Economic Recovery Hub provides comprehensive coverage on the nation’s pandemic recovery, incorporating data from hundreds of trusted government sources. Real-time data is...
An exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on the stock market a few months into the pandemic. The visualization looks at various industries which were impacted, both negatively and positively,...
During the quarantine, I noticed that my sleeping patterns changed (and not for the better). I tracked my sleep using the Calm app with its sleep log feature in order to investigate why I had...
This visualisation shows the outbreak of covid 19 in the southern region of India during the lockdown 1.0 & 2.0 i.e from 25 March 2020 to 03 May 2020. The intervals of lockdown are arranged in...
For the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I marked every siren, helicopter and construction noise I heard on paper. I charted it here, and included other sounds and events within earshot from my...
In early 2020, BBC Science Focus magazine approached me to produce an infographic that explored various aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak - including an overview, symptoms and a comparison to other...
Since the first Covid-19 outbreak happened in 2019, daily routines and how people interact with the environments around the globe have changed. These changes often go unnoticed. The purpose of this...
The project focuses the research on Change.org, one of the most popular platforms used to publish online petitions, thus performing slacktivism. Starting with a comprehensive analysis of the main...
For this project, I collaborated with another data scientist, Caroline Cullinan, to analyze Google mobility data from twelve countries. In conducting this analysis, Caroline and I had the goal of...
At the end of 2019, the new coronavirus pneumonia began to spread rapidly. Starting on New Year's Eve, more than 300 medical teams and more than 40,000 white-clad soldiers from all over the country...
The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) monitors the development of coronavirus in Serbia and its impact on the lives of people since the beginning of the pandemic. Since there is...
When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore.
As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...
This visual explanation demonstrates how COVID-19 tracing apps can break infection chains and preserve users' privacy. We felt that the public discourse surrounding digital contact tracing lacked a...
They were the first ones on the dance floor, the first in their families to immigrate to the United States, the first to lend a helping hand or words of support. Grandma, Pop Pop, Butterfly, Coach,...