Tracking COVID-19 with the Financial Times | John Burn-Murdoch | CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series

Tracking COVID-19 with the Financial Times
John Burn-Murdoch (Senior Data Visualisation Journalist, the Financial Times)

In this session of the CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series, John Burn-Murdoch, the key architect behind the massively popular COVID-19 data visualisation tool by the Financial Times, shares his and the FT team’s experience in data collection and presentation to the general public, the importance of good and evolving data visualisation in informing public discourse, and how he managed to capture the attention of millions and raised the global awareness on the seriousness of the ongoing pandemic.