A review: Data visualization for COVID-19

Authors

  • Yiheng Cai

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61173/2x3fkv71

Keywords:

Prevention, Policies, Data visualization, COVID-19, Epidemic

Abstract

As COVID-19 raged across the globe, it seriously disrupted social health security, daily work, and the rest of the people, which aroused great panic among all classes. These facts extensively affected the regional circulation and economic growth of the epidemic area. Data visualization, an advanced technology, can help humans understand epidemic transmission trends, identify high-risk areas of outbreak, and evaluate prevention and control policies. Previous essays immediately established databases to organize and build datasets. Other researchers built new visualization models to analyze the causes of virus transmission and pointed out the low efficiency of the existing COVID-19 system response. Although various research and data visualization methods have been used on COVID-19, there has not been a comprehensive, systematic essay that covers the entire span of COVID-19 and its data visualization usage. Therefore, this paper will provide a new systematic and comprehensive perspective to explore the analysis of data visualization to solve COVID-19 data challenges and provide research methods and applications for COVID-19. To be specific, this paper first introduces the characteristics and challenges of COVID-19 epidemic data people may face during the data visualization process, which includes data complexity problems, data timeliness problems, data regional problems, and data quality problems. Then, this paper discusses data visualization methods used by predecessors in previous research. After that, this paper describes the urgent data visualization analysis requirements of COVID-19, including regional differences in virus spread, the influence of temperature on the virus, transmission trends, and death rates for different genders and ages, etc. Finally, this paper reviews applications of data visualization in COVID-19 analysis, followed by earlier-stage prevention, mid-term containment, and later-term reduction of impact. This paper provides an important reference for further research and application of data visualization technology in COVID-19 prevention and control, which brings new ideas for strengthening future epidemic surveillance and data visualization for global epidemic prevention and control.

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Published

2024-06-06