“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” If you watched the UK government’s COVID-19 briefing to announce and England-wide lockdown, you might have been reminded of this quote by Harry S Truman.

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation to describe the situation and justify their decisions. But it has also demonstrated that while software ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We don’t need high production values, or even much polish – it’s nice to feel like we’re seeing the latest data ...