What does the world Google during Corona? 13 graphs 📈
The year of 2020 will be remembered as the ‘year of corona’. The first few cases from China made many shrug.
A few weeks later we all panicked.
Over 7 billion of us were confronted with something we’ve never seen before. A new disease, which had the potential to impact all of us.
Knowing so little about a dangerous virus made us think about:
- How to stay safe
- How to stay healthy
- And much more…
In this article you’ll find 13 graphs with a red line and a yellow line 📊
- On the left side you’ll see the absolute number of daily new corona infections worldwide, which matches the red line.
- On the right side, you’ll see the relative search volume for the given keyword, which matches the yellow line. This line represents a relative growth/decline.
Expand to see more information on how this data was gathered
1) The daily number of infections
- This data was collected from Google’s ‘daily new infections’ chart.Â
- This data represents the number of new people infected with corona on a specific date.
2) The search volume of any search queryÂ
- This data was taken from Google Trends.Â
- Since the absolute search volumes aren’t interesting for this study, relative numbers were taken.Â
- Hereby you can consider 0 to be the moment of the year were the least people are searching for this keyword
- 100 represents the day where the most people are searching for this keyword.
#1 Working from home? Is that even possible?
Yellow = people searching for “tips for working from home”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- When corona started most businesses decided to have their employees work from home.
- Clearly many of us didn’t know how to deal with this and asked Google for help.
- Apparently we figured it out pretty fast.
#2 And if necessary – how do I survive in the wild?
Yellow = people searching for “survival tips”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- When the number of corona infections started to grow, we got interested in surviving in the wild.
#3 We have trouble sleeping at night
Yellow = people searching for “sleeping tips”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- When the number of daily infections started to grow, there are 2 big spikes for people searching for “sleeping tips”.
- Althought this can’t be said for sure but it seems like we’re worrying about corona at night.
#4 The first corona wave made us depressed
Yellow = people searching for “suicide tips”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- When the number of daily infections started to grow, the number of people searching for “suicide tips” went through the roof.
#5 Is the world ending?
Yellow = people searching for “world end”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- The first few cases of corona caused an epic increase in the search phrase “world end”.
#6 Let’s stay at home and order food
Yellow = people searching for “order food”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- When the number of daily infections started to grow, we realized we don’t need to go outside. We can have food come to us.
#7 Let’s clean our hands (for a while)
Yellow = people searching for “hand sanitizer”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- The first few weeks of corona made us interested in hand sanitizer.
- After a few weeks our interest in hand sanitizer dropped significantly.
#8 How do we entertain ourselves?
Yellow = people searching for “online activities”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- After the first few corona cases we immediately jumped to online activities.
- When the summer hit we got less interested in online activities.
#9 Should I wear a facemask?
Yellow = people searching for “facemask”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- At the start of the corona virus we got extremely interested in facemasks.Â
- Our interest in facemasks dropped quite fast, but came back during the summer.
#10 How do I avoid corona?
Yellow = people searching for “health tips”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- The first few weeks of corona we were extremely interested in health tips.
- Our interest in health tips faded away pretty fast, and is currently even lower than in january 2020.
#11 What is corona?
Yellow = people searching for “corona”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- This graph shows a peak of interest right at the start. This makes sense, since none of us heard about this disease.
- Once we learned about it, we stopped saerching for it. Even when the number of daily infects increased.
#12 The party is (obviously) over
Yellow = people searching for “night club”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- During the first few weeks of corona most night clubs around the world got shut down.
#13 Is there a vaccine yet?
Yellow = people searching for “vaccine”
Red = daily new corona infections
What’s interesting
- During the beginning of this pandemic, we Googled for a potential vaccine. Only to find out there wasn’t one.
- The past few weeks our interested in a vaccine is skyrocketing.
How was this data collected?
1) The daily number of infections
- This data was collected from Google’s ‘daily new infections’ chart.Â
- This data represents the number of new people infected with corona on a specific date.
2) The search volume of any search query
- This data was taken from Google Trends.Â
- Since the absolute search volumes aren’t interesting for this study, relative numbers were taken.Â
- Hereby you can consider 0 to be the moment of the year were the least people are searching for this keyword
- 100 represents the day where the most people are searching for this keyword.
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