To: InfoVis list This is a transformative moment for data visualization, as it is central in much of the public and professional discussions on COVID-19. Please circulate, where appropriate. It's our chance to make a little noise about visualization. Data Visualization's Breakthrough Moment in the COVID-19 Crisis The discipline has made some important contributions over its 300-year history, but perhaps none more so than now https://medium.com/nightingale/data-visualizations-breakthrough-moment-in-th... If you haven't seen it, Nightingale, is a widely-read free online publication of the Data Visualization Society, which has emerged in the past year as a strong force in promoting data visualization, especially among professionals and the general public. The article describes and links to some of the 600+ visualizations that have appeared on the web during the COVID-19 crisis. It highlights the valuable role of visualization to inform the public, help hospital managers plan, and guide government policy-makers. I wrote a personal tribute to info vis and parallel coordinates hero Alfred Inselberg who died recently ... It appeared in: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=38> (Vol 40, 3<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=9082262>, May-June 1 2020) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9082278 Best wishes... stay safe... Ben Shneiderman Ben Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu<mailto:ben@cs.umd.edu> Dept of Computer Science www.cs.umd.edu/~ben<http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben> Iribe Building 2162 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20814 Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Founding Director (1982-2000) Human-Computer Interaction Lab Member, National Academy of Engineering Fellow, AAAS, ACM, IEEE, NAI, SIGCHI Academy, VIS Academy