This week, we are joined by Mark Sample, associate professor and chair of Digital Studies at Davidson College. Mark helps us better understand the purpose of the now-ubiquitous COVID-19 dashboard. Do these dashboards give you an important snapshot of the state of the pandemic on your college campus or in your state? Or are they simply the "Best Deception"?

"A Tool to Inform Too Often Confuses"

We Rate COVID Dashboards

"Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard"

"Behind Georgia's COVID-19 Dashboard Disaster"

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