COVID-19 Cases v Hospital Beds in the U.S

Exploring how to gather data from primary sources and then organizing said data to create representational graphics. I focused on comparing COVID-19 cases and hospital beds in the United States.

This was my second round at creating a narrative with representational graphics. This time focusing on comparing COVID-19 cases and hospital beds in the United States. Since COVID is at the forefront of everyone’s minds, I thought it would be interesting to visually see the comparison.

I started by gathering data including the number of cases in each state, hospitalizations (due to COVID) in each state, and finally comparing each state’s population and total hospital beds.

After gathering all the data needed to create these representational graphics, I started to input all the information I found and created the maps used in the final article. I then started picking out the color palette and typography and then started playing around with the layout of the article.