BETTER UNDERSTANDING COVID-19 THROUGH DATA VISUALIZATION
BETTER UNDERSTANDING COVID-19 THROUGH DATA VISUALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: Media coverage of Covid-19 currently dominates all news channels. Editorial offices around the world are using the availability of data to help clarify the situation regarding the pandemic. In particular, they provide information on the number of infected, cured, new cases or the current spread of the virus in each area. Data visualizations and various graphs or statistics have become part of media production. In the first half of the paper, we define the term data visualization. What is its contribution to the understanding of data and context. Subsequently, the paper offers a look at data portals that use data visualizations and the data from the Covid-19 pandemic itself. It is these data that have an irreplaceable role to play in clarifying the pandemic situation, helping individual governments to fight the coronavirus. The article explains how publicly available data can predict the occurrence of the virus, its spread, but especially its future behavior. The study also includes examples of data visualization focusing on the Covid19 pandemic.

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