Geospatiotemporal Visualization of COVID-19 Global Spread

Using 2D and 3D Visualization to Characterize and Better Understand Pandemics

Data source: Center for Systems Science, Johns Hopkins University, https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/2019-nCoV

Confirmed Cases, March 20, 2020

 

Interactive 2D Bokeh Plots

Bokeh is an open source data viz app which allows for advanced functionality and interactivity.

View visualizations of daily new cases up through March 20, 2020.

3D Visualizations

These images are visualizations of COVID-19 confirmed cases by country or region as of March 20,2020. They were created with the ANTz (Advanced NooTropic zietgiest) visualization tool. Learn more and download ANTz.

Time is vertical with earlier dates lower than later dates. Color and scale both represent the cumulative number of confirmed cases per day.

We include two different scaling methods, linear and log. Linear scale allows for a more intuitive sense of the relattive magnitudes of a country's cumulative number of cases. The drawback is that large numbers mean larger objects which obscure smaller objects. Log scale helps to avoid this problem. Color provides a common reference between the two methods.

Linear Scale

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Log Scale

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New Cases, March 20, 2020

These images are visualizations of COVID-19 new daily cases by country or region as of March 20,2020.

Linear Scale

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Log Scale

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Video

Watch a video of similar data from March 17, 2020.