For Mona Chalabi, 33, a Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator, data has been a special kind of solace during the pandemic.

“Let’s say I’m really freaking out about Covid — I’ll remind myself of what the case rate is per 100,000 residents rather than looking at these overall numbers,” she said in a recent interview over Zoom. Parsing through numbers and turning them into something that people could easily understand, and even find comfort in, has always been Ms. Chalabi’s method.

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