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[Webinar] A Picture is Worth a Thousand Stories: Visualizing COVID-19

Dr. Jessica Hullman, Computer Science & Engineering; Medill
Dr. Matthew Kay, Information, University of Michigan

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Visualizations of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths are everywhere, but can they all be trusted? How can a visualization convey a clear message about COVID-19 while faithfully conveying uncertainty around available estimates? Dr. Jessica Hullman, a professor of computer science and journalism at Northwestern University, and Dr. Matthew Kay, a professor of information at the University of Michigan, will critique popular visualizations of COVID-19 and discuss interpretation pitfalls as well as successful strategies for visualizing uncertainty.

This webinar will be available through WebEx at this LINK. Please use the following passcode when accessing: 1234.

This is part of Northwestern Buffett's Confronting COVID-19: Global Implications and Futures webinar series.

Explore our past webinars on confronting COVID-19:

Webinar Recap: March 24th

Blunting the Impact of COVID-19

Dr. Robert Murphy, Feinberg

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is much more than a viral infection, with a mortality rate at least five times greater than influenza. Reverberations include stressing our health care system to the point of partial collapse and a kind of global social isolation never before experienced. In this week's webinar hosted by Northwestern’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern Medicine infectious disease expert and executive director of Northwestern’s Institute for Global Health, Dr. Robert Murphy, spoke about these issues and how we can blunt the impact of COVID-19 before it’s too late.

You can find the video of the webinar, along with four key takeaways, here.

Webinar Recap: March 17th

Can’t Touch This: Anthropological Reflections on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Dr. Adia Benton, Anthropology

On March 17th, Northwestern University cultural and medical anthropologist Adia Benton discussed topics central to the COVID-19 pandemic in a webinar hosted by Northwestern’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. The webinar raised provocative questions related to what is and isn’t known about COVID-19 and its transmission dynamics, as well as the implications of the response to COVID-19 for various forms of governance and our global society as a whole.

You can find the video of the webinar, along with five key takeaways, here.

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