Notable New Visuals Bringing Data to Life | DataViz Weekly
Summary
Scientific American gathered insights from public health experts discussing key lessons from how the United States handled the COVID crisis. Annotated area charts with text and line markers illustrate trends in hospitalizations and deaths — the two metrics closely tracked during the pandemic. The collection covers a wide range of areas, from economic indicators like employment rates to personal aspects such as family life and work patterns, making the pandemic’s influence visible in many measurable dimensions. You can clearly see, for example, that non-EU foreign prisoners with no ties to Spain receive the highest risk scores, even when they rank the lowest on the other criteria. Swiss newspaper Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) presents a detailed visual breakdown of settlement sizes and territorial control in the region.