At the Epicenter
![Homepage of 'At the Epicenter': the screen is divided horizontally, on the left there is a text in big letters 'What if all Covid-19 deaths in Brazil happended in your neighborhood?'; on the right, there is a map of an undefined place in Brazil, streets are black, city blocks are dark grey and there are small dots representing every single person living there. Over the map, a box asks the user to input their address to start the experience. The application is accessible, I invite you to try it!](../img/work-epicenter1.png)
![A screenshot of the project 'At the Epicenter', showing a map of Rio de Janeiro, centered around the famous Copacabana beach. On the map, the streets are black, city blocks are dark grey and there are small dots representing every single person living there. There is an orange circle over the map. The population inside this circle is roughly the number of deaths by Covid-19 in Brazil (around 400 thousand people, at the time). Dots inside the circle are white, and outside, light grey.](../img/work-epicenter2.png)
Project Description
"No epicentro" is a data visualization tool created with the aim of alerting to the amazing numbers of Covid-19 deaths in Brazil. Up until 2021 January 5th, over 196,000 people had died due to Covid‑19 in the country. But it can be difficult to visualize it so we thought: what if all these deaths had happened near you? Since major Covid‑19 outbreaks happened in metropolitan areas, many Brazilians don’t see the effects of the disease in their daily lives. This simulation was created to make the dimension of our losses easier to understand. We later adapted the project for the United States in collaboration with “The Washington Post”.
Team
Rodrigo Menegat (Data and Storytelling), Vinicius Sueiro (Design and Development), Tiago Maranhão (Maps and Development), Alberto Cairo (Art direction), Gilberto Scofield Junior and Natalia Leal (Agencia Lupa), Marco Tulio Pires (Google News Initiative)
Awards
🏆 Best in Show (small teams) — Society for News Design, 🏆 Best Dataviz in Latin America (update: and Worldwide! 🥳) — Digital Media Awards, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, 🏆 Sigma Award for Data Journalism, 🥉 Bronze Medal (Innovation) — Malofiej
Project Websites
Brazilian version in Portuguese
USA version (in collaboration with The Washington Post)