A tour of CovidPulse and its inception

Here is a tour of CovidPulse, including some of the visualization and information architecture concepts, some insights that they provide, and the influences that drove design.

0:14 Johns Hopkins University U.S. County data source
0:40 What is a sparkline?
1:38 Information architecture influenced by “Designing for the Scent of Information” by Jared Spool.
2:25 Trend status coloration by Charlie Frye.
2:45 Outlier counties with large prison populations. The unexpected questions maps help us ask.
3:50 The “second wave” signature.
4:50 The question of universities.
5:10 New York’s severe early rates.
5:48 California’s slow growth.
6:20 The time lag, and other variations, between cases and deaths.
7:09 The trend signatures of cumulative cases.
8:07 The upswing of North Dakota.
8:36 A previous sparkline map visualizing digital security.
9:09 The sparklines of Riley Champine, and its influence on CovidPulse.
10:08 The cumulative case sparklines of Mathieu Rajerison as validation of a concept.
10:37 The power of trend visuals with temporal and geographic data.

About the authors

John Nelson

I have far too much fun looking for ways to understand and present data visually, hopefully driving product strategy and engaging users. I work in the ArcGIS Living Atlas team at Esri, pushing and pulling data in all sorts of absurd ways and then sharing the process. I also design user experiences for maps and apps. When I'm not doing those things, I'm chasing around toddlers and wrangling chickens, and generally getting into other ad-hoc adventures. Life is good. You might also like these Styles for ArcGIS Pro: esriurl.com/nelsonstyles

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Jinnan Zhang

Jinnan is a Senior Product Engineer at Esri's the Living Atlas team, He is interested in developing apps using TypeScript, React and Redux (if necessary), ArcGIS API for JavaScript, D3 and Vanilla JS.

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