COVID stopped our lives dead in their tracks. Outside of social distancing, it inhibited our ability to travel large distances because of the vast number of cancellations in flights. Curious about this, I searched for a dataset to visualize the profound impact that COVID had on our ability to travel in early 2020.
The Kaggle dataset used to create these visualizations can be found here. If you want to see how I parsed the data and created these visuals, please navigate to my observable notebook. The airline abreviations and the cancellation codes for flights are shown below.
My hypothesis is that there will be a spike in flight disruptions due to COVID following the March 11th proclamation of COVID as a pandemic, and that these cancellations will predominantly affect big travel hubs near big cities.