Visual Analysis and Exploration of COVID-19 Based on Multi-source Heterogeneous Data

The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) has raged in many countries around the world. In the process of fighting against the COVID-19, unprecedented large-scale epidemic data have been produced such as case data, spatio-temporal data, public opinion data and so on. The increasingly complex data poses a significant challenge to understand. A two-level interactive visualization system named COVID-19Vis is proposed in this paper, which collects epidemic data from multiple sources and provides an interactive mode of multi-graph linkage. Users can not only easily analyze and interpret the spatial-temporal characteristics and potential rules of the epidemic, but also find the relationship between policy, online public opinion and the development of the epidemic situation. Through a large number of visualization effects and user feedback, the effectiveness and practicability of the COVID-19Vis are further verified.