A small team at Johns Hopkins University early on created what's become one of the most authoritative interactive online dashboards, tracking COVID-19 data around the world.
Back then, his map was splashed with just a smattering of red circles, indicating a grand total of 320 confirmed cases. Nearly all of them were in China; there were a handful more in Thailand, Japan and South Korea.
Over the months that followed, as the epidemic turned into a pandemic, and as the number of confirmed cases grew from several hundred to nearly two million, Dong watched those red circles on the map spread steadily and fast, all over the globe.In the first few weeks, Dong was entering all of the data by himself, manually plugging the numbers of confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths into the dashboard. That quickly turned into a monumental task.
Ensheng Dong, a first-year PhD student who helped create a dashboard showing cases of the novel coronavirus that would later be named COVID-19.Ensheng Dong, a first-year PhD student who helped create a dashboard showing cases of the novel coronavirus that would later be named COVID-19.
"I think what we massively underestimated was the general public's interest," she says."It didn't even cross our mind how popular the interface would be.... People are just really desperate for information that they trust."
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