What’s Wrong with COVID-19 Data Visualizations, and how to fix it

Example of COVID-19 data visualization coverage by the Financial Times

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak I have been puzzled at the way data is presented to us by the media and even specialists.

I think by now everybody has seen one of those “trajectory” charts representing the number of cases or the number of deaths, for each country. The problem? For one, most are not interactive, like it’s not 2020 and…