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Searching Covid-19 Finding Patterns in Our Need for Knowledge

This project is sponsored by Schema, Google Trends, and Axios: “In late 2019 a novel coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Over the following months, the regional outbreak exploded into a devastating global crisis with unsettling levels of uncertainty. How does the virus spread? How will we pay the bills? What will happen next? By looking at Google Trends search data related to the Covid-19 pandemic, we can discover patterns in our desire for information — waves of interest that reflect the pandemic’s progression and our understanding of it. The following visualization explores some of the top coronavirus related search trends in the US between January 20 and April 24, 2020. Each bubble represents a query that was among the top trending searches in one or more states (smallest to largest bubbles) on each day…”

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