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Visual analytics tools can now display multiple COVID-19 trends using animated, spatiotemporal data. This new method, CoronaViz, is preferred by non-experts and aids epidemiologists in understanding complex disease outbreaks.

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  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Epidemiology
  • Data Visualization

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for effective geospatial visual analytics.
  • Existing systems struggled to represent multiple, interacting, time-varying geospatial variables.
  • Understanding disease spread requires analyzing complex spatiotemporal data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how epidemiologists interact with visual analytics tools.
  • To develop a unified view for multiple time-varying geospatial variables.
  • To assess the utility of complex spatiotemporal encodings for experts and non-experts.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed an encoding method using animated, concentric, hollow circles with color encoding.
  • Developed CoronaViz, a browser-based tool implementing this method.
  • Conducted task-based evaluations with non-experts and interviews with epidemiologists.

Main Results:

  • Epidemiologists confirmed the need for multivariate, spatiotemporal queries and found CoronaViz useful.
  • Non-experts preferred animation over multi-view dashboards for spatiotemporal queries.
  • The animated encoding effectively conveyed multiple variables without occlusion.

Conclusions:

  • Conveying complex multivariate data involves trade-offs, necessitating complementary visualization strategies.
  • Animated multivariate spatiotemporal encoding addresses crucial needs for data exploration and presentation.
  • CoronaViz empowers experts and the public for future disease outbreaks and is available open-source.