This is really interesting in that, without any manipulation of the data at all, we have a visual from which different groups of people will draw the exact opposite conclusions from one another. Without any trickery with the presentation, a large portion of people will look at this and think "look how few people have died" and another portion will think "holy shit so many people have died." Perspective is everything
![image showing [OC] Covid cases and deaths in the U.S. as a percentage of total population. 1 square = 10,000 people.](10d66dd1-5a75-5eea-86c9-5fe42ca5d2be.jpg)
RufMixa555 on August 15th, 2020 at 10:37 UTC »
Is there a way to make this a time lapse?
Like watch it go month by month (or even better day by day?)
pwd27club on August 15th, 2020 at 12:06 UTC »
This is really interesting in that, without any manipulation of the data at all, we have a visual from which different groups of people will draw the exact opposite conclusions from one another. Without any trickery with the presentation, a large portion of people will look at this and think "look how few people have died" and another portion will think "holy shit so many people have died." Perspective is everything
data-artist on August 15th, 2020 at 13:57 UTC »
Yes - I will try to follow up with an animation over time. That will give a better idea about how rapidly it has spread over past 5 months.