Chart People

Find the signal in a noisy world.

Chart People helps you make sense of public data. Explore patterns, follow change over time, and see the context behind the numbers.

A fixed frame
for comparison.

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Keep the scale fixed

Changing a filter does not stretch the axes. Counts stay on the same six-decade scale.

Keep missing data visible

Unavailable dates are not zeros. A requested fit that includes zero or unknown counts is marked unavailable.

Keep the source in view

Charts include source, coverage and retrieval details. Published records can be corrected.

Historical project

COVID-19 dashboards

Historical COVID-19 case and death counts by county, state and country. The project site marks the world and US dashboards as no longer available.

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Retired project

Operation Metro Surge

Retired due to data integrity concerns. The dashboard and dataset are no longer available.

Retirement notice

About Chart People

Chart People began with chicagodata.org in 2015. The original dashboards let visitors load a neighborhood’s data and filter it in the browser while the chart’s frame stayed fixed.

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