BTS, the South Korean boy band, is apparently really good at dancing. Ketchup Duck breaks down a routine into individual formations to show the precision: There are a lot of impressive things about… | Continue reading
For National Geographic, Nina Strochlic and Riley D. Champine look back at the 1918 pandemic for clues about the future: The 1918 flu, also known as the Spanish Flu, lasted until 1920 and is consid… | Continue reading
Using 3-D simulation data from the Kyoto Institute of Technology, The New York Times shows how droplets from a sneeze or a cough can spread in a space. In a nutshell, six feet is the recommendation… | Continue reading
The Ohio Department of Health released this video to show the advantages of social distancing: That’s a lot of balls and mousetraps to setup. | Continue reading
Consumer spending has shifted dramatically since most people have to stay at home. For The New York Times, Lauren Leatherby and David Gelles show by how much: All of the charts in this article are … | Continue reading
The pandemic has affected all parts of life, which can be seen from many points of view. For National Geographic, Taylor Maggiacomo and Maya Wei-Haas on the decrease in average ground displacement:… | Continue reading
In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Anna Flagg and Joseph Neff look at the flow in and out of jails and what that means during these times of social distancing: Preventi… | Continue reading
The Washington Post provides clear instructions on how to sew your own mask. Download and print the template, attach elastic straps, and sew. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
For Reuters, Jon McClure looks at the death counts for each country from a different angle. “Each line measures how much the number of fatalities grew in seven days.” The goal is to … | Continue reading
When I tell people that I’m a graduate student in Statistics, there are two responses that I get more than any others. The most popular of the two usually goes something like this. Oh man, I … | Continue reading
The CDC now recommends that you wear a cloth face mask if you leave the house. For The Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz and Aaron Steckelberg answer some questions you might have about making your… | Continue reading
Your schedule changed. The time spent in front of or using a screen probably shifted. Using data from SimilarWeb and Apptopia, Ella Koeze and Nathaniel Popper for The New York Times look at how the… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Lazaro Gamio and Karen Yourish use an animated map to show known total coronavirus deaths over time. The height of each triangle represents the count for a Core-Based Statis… | Continue reading
Will Chase, who specialized in visualization for epidemiological studies in grad school, outlined why he won’t make charts showing Covid-19 data: So why haven’t I joined the throng of f… | Continue reading
From researchers at Bauhaus-University Weimar, this video shows how various methods of covering a cough change the spread of air from your mouth. | Continue reading
For Reuters, Chris Canipe looks at social distancing from the perspective of household income: Anonymized smartphone data in the United States shows some interesting trends. People in larger cities… | Continue reading
Here are some useful distractions for you as you stay-at-home and wait for an unknown amount of time. | Continue reading
Based on cellphone data from Cuebiq, The New York Times looked at how different parts of the country reduced their travel between the end of February and the end of March. Some counties really stay… | Continue reading
As you would expect, not many people are flying these days. The Washington Post mapped the halts around the world: On Tuesday, the TSA screened just over 146,000 passengers at U.S. airports, a 94 p… | Continue reading
Fatalities from Covid-19 range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. Nobody knows for sure. These predictions are based on statistical models, which are based on data, which aren’t … | Continue reading
On the surface, the decennial census seems straightforward. Count everyone in the country and you’re done. But the way we’ve done that has changed over the decades. The Pudding and Alec… | Continue reading
3Blue1Brown goes into more of the math of SIR models — which drive many of the simulations you’ve seen so far — that assume people are susceptible, infectious, or recovered. | Continue reading
Maybe you’re starting to run low. Here’s how much you’ll need when you go to restock. | Continue reading
Comprehensive national data on Covid-19 has been hard to come by through government agencies. The New York Times released their own dataset and will be updating regularly: The tracking effort grew … | Continue reading
A comic by Marcos Balfagón attaches action to the curve. | Continue reading
Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources to help you work better or more efficiently. Here’s the good stuff for March. | Continue reading
The Department of Labor released the numbers for last week’s unemployment filings. 3.28 million for the country. For The New York Times, Quocktrung Bui and Justin Wolfers show the numbers rel… | Continue reading
The numbers are fuzzy. You take them at face value, and you end up with fuzzy interpretations. Starting at the end of this month, Johns Hopkins is providing a two-week epidemiology course on unders… | Continue reading
Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider made a set of interactive charts to track confirmed coronavirus cases. Switch between regions and scales. See the data normalized for population or not. See trends for activ… | Continue reading
I read and read and read and read. But almost everything I read about is out of my control, so I’m turning more energy towards things that I can control. I’m keeping my distance. Suppor… | Continue reading
A chart from Business Insider makes a poor attempt to compare the death rates, by age, for the common flu against Covid-19: The age groups on the horizontal axes are different, so you can’t m… | Continue reading
Stuart A. Thompson and Yaryna Serkez for New York Times Opinion on decreasing movement, based on mobile phone data: The impact of social distancing and work-from-home measures has been captured usi… | Continue reading
I spend 50% of my waking hours washing my hands. I spend the other 50% trying not to touch my face. | Continue reading
David Spiegelhalter on communicating a crisis: There are some basic principles, which I learnt from John Krebs, former Chair of the Food Standard Agency, who had to deal with many crises. The first… | Continue reading
In a Channel 4 clip, Hugh Montgomery does some back-of-the-napkin math contrasting the normal flu against the coronavirus. | Continue reading
For The Spinoff, Toby Morris illustrates how individuals can break a chain of events: The good news is, we can do things that will reduce the chances of us spreading the virus. That means we can br… | Continue reading
Using a combination of estimates based on cell phone movements and outbreak size, The New York Times shows how the coronavirus started with a few cases and then spread around the world. The particl… | Continue reading
You’re probably feeling a range of emotions these days. It helps if you can express them. This emotional word wheel by Geoffrey Roberts might help: I work with people who have limited emotion… | Continue reading
With the climate changing, animals will need to migrate to different areas to live, but that can be a challenge when there is a giant highway blocking the way. The Washington Post looks at how scie… | Continue reading
Kurzgesagt, which make videos to explain complex and abstract concepts in an understandable way, explain the coronavirus and what you should do. Spoiler alert: wash your hands and keep your distanc… | Continue reading
Vox used a lotion that mimics viruses to demonstrate the power of washing your hands for twenty seconds: | Continue reading
The restaurant industry is taking a big hit right now, as most people are staying put at home. OpenTable provides a downloadable dataset to show how much restaurant dining is down: This data shows … | Continue reading
We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but we can look at what we do know and make our best guess. | Continue reading
Using estimates from the Harvard Global Health Institute, The Upshot mapped what hospital bed occupancy might look like across the country if we don’t make changes now: “If we don’… | Continue reading
Jeffrey Leek, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, and Elizabeth Matsui have a free/ pay-what-you-want book on understanding data and statistics in the medical literature: Whether you are a medical stude… | Continue reading
Using R, we look at how your decreased interaction with others can help slow the spread of infectious diseases. | Continue reading
Coronavirus testing in the United States has been a slow process to say the least. The New York Times shows how test counts contrast against other countries. There’s some catching up to do. | Continue reading