Tag: coronavirus
How the Boston Globe encouraged readers to support restaurants through #ProjectTakeout
On Jan. 15, the Boston Globe launched Project Takeout, an initiative spearheaded by food writer Devra First, which encourages Boston residents to order takeout and support the restaurant industry while […]
How Lazaro Gamio of the New York Times visualized the COVID-19 death toll
As the number of Americans who have died of COVID-19 has climbed beyond 500,000, it’s become increasingly difficult to conceptualize this number. The New York Times has been tracking COVID […]
C+J 2021: How the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped data journalism
As COVID-19 cases surged throughout the last year, so did data visualizations. Graphical concepts like flattening the curve became household terms, and even non-epidemiologists began talking about R numbers and […]
How Stuff.co.nz told the story of New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown
Felippe Rodrigues creates data visualizations for stuff.co.nz, New Zealand’s largest online news publisher. One of his recent pieces, “The story of New Zealand’s COVID lockdown, in graphs,” uses smoothly animated […]
How The New York Times is tracking Covid-19 cases in the U.S.
Published June 30, 2020. The New York Times’ map of U.S. cases of Covid-19 is a living webpage that changes with the numbers and relies on a team of over […]
How The New York Times produced a visual explainer of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
The novel coronavirus is much more than a sphere wrapped in spike proteins. Back in April, The New York Times published a visual explainer of the proteins and genome of […]
How Paraguay’s El Surti is adapting to the age of Covid-19, boosting its fact-checking on Whatsapp and launching a new podcast
Four years ago, Paraguayan media outlet El Surtidor — known as El Surti — was created to address deep-seated issues of media accessibility and information inequality in the country. The […]
A roundup of coronavirus dashboards, datasets and resources
Access and availability of data on the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, are essential for understanding how the virus spreads, who is most likely to get it, […]
How Northeastern’s Samuel Scarpino built a live map tracking the coronavirus outbreak
Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, built a map that monitors the outbreak of the coronavirus. He has collaborated with many other scientists to track the […]