Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The dataset -- us.csv -- if from NYT's GitHub repository:
github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
The NYT main coronavirus page is:
nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
This video again shows how to generate the bar chart (one bar for each day) and then overlap the thicker line on top of the bars. Here we do it in Excel; the line is made by adding a "trend line" (the 7-day moving average).
The dataset -- us.csv -- if from NYT's GitHub repository:
github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
The NYT main coronavirus page is:
nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
This video again shows how to generate the bar chart (one bar for each day) and then overlap the thicker line on top of the bars. Here we do it in Excel; the line is made by adding a "trend line" (the 7-day moving average).










