Houghton County COVID-19 timeline

I built a really nice interactive timeline, but Substack won’t let me include it directly in a post or email. More on that later. I’ve added a little teaser image to give you an idea of what it looks like, but to see the whole thing, you’ll have to follow a link.

The timeline marks school openings and closings, potential exposure sites announced by the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, and a few more things against the backdrop of new, confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Houghton County. With so much happening across different spaces and in such a short time, I thought having things laid out chronologically might help make sense of things a bit better.

Check it out by clicking right here.

I’d like to state clearly that I have not and would not draw any conclusions from this graph. This is an incomplete data set, and not all significant events are included, either. I can add things if you feel like something crucial has been omitted.

This is simply a visualization to help place disparate events in their chronological context, I thought it worked well with the story below on non-pharmaceutical intervention.

I really like building visualizations like this to help people understand stories. I hope you like them, too. I used JS Storyline from Knight Labs at Northwestern University for this one. They provide a suite of free, easy-to-use tools for storytelling.