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This picture looks like elephant grass and a giant white sheet for an ant.

ANT's EYE VIEW 1

ANT's EYE VIEW 2

FIGURE 11.4  Ant’s eye view

Indeed, it is just a garden by the lakeside for a human being!

Human EYE VIEW 3

HUMAN EYE VIEW 4

FIGURE 11.5  Human eye view.

Many doctors and nurses lost their lives treating patients in the COVID-​19 pandemic.

I salute those fearless souls who put others’ well-​being ahead of their own! Preventing

the spread of the virus is heavily dependent on reporting its impact. Many governments

collected (and still collecting) these data from their medical communities and made them

available for their citizens to raise awareness to encourage them to stay indoors.

This chapter shows you how to create a graph from the publicly available data that

can provide you some perspective of the daily COVID infections and deaths in the

United States. Here is why I chose this:

• It provides a good grounding on how to create charts

• It describes some easy techniques to get data from a website

• It helps you understand how to work with a map

• It provides insight into sorting techniques when you need numbers in a cer­

tain order