160  |  Visualizing COVID-19 with Carl Bergstrom

Chapters

1. 0:35 Welcome back to Data Stories!
2. 1:08 Our podcast is listener-supported, please consider making a donation!
3. 1:47 Our topic: Visualizing COVID-19
4. 2:02 Our guest: Carl Bergstrom, Professor of Biology at the University of Washington
5. 3:57 What do you think about the "Flatten the curve" viz?
6. 7:29 The importance of Drew Harris' version of Flatten the Curve
7. 9:45 The evolvement from the CDC diagram to the Rosamund Pearce diagram released by The Economist
8. 12:51 Carl's design process with designer Esther Kim in developing his version
9. 19:08 The advantage of a cartoon style Flatten the Curve diagram
10. 20:50 The Washington Post simulator
11. 21:38 Steve Goodreau's family bubble viz
12. 24:13 The rise of the logarithmic chart and its problems of alignment
13. 30:45 Normalization by population size?
14. 33:59 Lots of ppl want to contribute on the numbers. Is this good or should only experts deal with it?
15. 38:56 David Yu's Covid Projection Tracker
16. 41:00 Are there too many publications?
17. 42:43 How to communicate about risk and uncertainty?
18. 49:43 Carl's book "Calling Bullshit" comes out Aug 4th
19. 50:32 Get in touch with us and support us on Patreon