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Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer, for NYT Opinion, approached the one-million mark for Covid deaths with text messages. The piece starts on February 29, 2020, when the first person died because of Covid. The count to 1 million begins, and a recurring ticker reminds you of the increase over time. Thirteen text message threads between someone who died and a person who cared remind you that the numbers are real.
Tags: coronavirus, New York Times, texting
Posted by in coronavirus, Infographics, New York Times, texting
Speaking of relationship timelines, Chris Lewis used texting history with his girlfriend after the first swipe on Bumble as the backdrop of their own story. A few 21k messages later, they’re engaged and live together. [Thanks, Chris]
Tags: relationships, texting
Posted by in relationships, Self-surveillance, texting
Shirley Wu used a tree metaphor to represent the interactions of five individuals with an SFMOMA texting service:
Last June, SFMOMA launched Send Me SFMOMA, a service where individuals could text a variety of requests – “send me love”, “send me hope”, “send me smiles” – and SFMOMA would respond with an artwork that best matched the request. They received over 5 million texts from hundreds of thousands of individuals over the course of a year.
And they’ve asked me to do something fun with that data.
Each tree represents a day, and each leaf or flower represents something that the service sent back.