{"id":4953,"date":"2020-03-27T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetnl.org\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:42:11","slug":"social-distancing-scoreboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/03\/27\/social-distancing-scoreboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing Scoreboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is no secret &#8211; we love data. And even more than that, visualization of said data. A great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unacast.com\/covid19\/social-distancing-scoreboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"site by Unacast (opens in a new tab)\">site by Unacast<\/a> taking mobility data (based on cell phone location) and looking at the changes over time. In talking with Unacast (we&#8217;re looking to get the data set for explorations in the TNL), turns out their framing of &#8220;grades&#8221; got them blowback from certain states. People don&#8217;t like being judged &#8211; but this is another example of narrative and how you present the data. Everything from color schemes to font choices influence the reader&#8217;s impression. Part of the science in data science is the art of narrative. Or at least it needs to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret &#8211; we love data. And even more than that, visualization of said data. A great site by Unacast taking mobility data (based on cell phone location) and looking at the changes over time. In talking with Unacast (we&#8217;re looking to get the data set for explorations in the TNL), turns out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-narrative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}