On the Use of ‘Glyphmaps’ for Analysing the Scale and Temporal Spread of COVID-19 Reported Cases

• DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10040213
• Publication Date: 2021-04-01T11:23:17Z
• Authors: Roger Beecham; Jason Dykes; Layik Hama; Nik Lomax
• Keywords: Geovisualization; Salience (neuroscience); Pandemic

Recent analysis of area-level COVID-19 cases data attempts to grapple with a challenge familiar geovisualization: how capture the development virus, whilst supporting across geographic areas? We present several glyphmap designs for addressing this applied local authority in England whereby charts displaying multiple aspects related pandemic are given arrangement. These graphics visually complex, clutter, occlusion and salience bias an inevitable consequence. develop framework describing validating against design requirements. Together observational analysis, is used evaluate our designs, relating them particular needs based on usefulness structure they expose. Our documented accompanying code repository, attend common difficulties geovisualization could transfer contexts outside UK phenomena beyond pandemic.