年关将至，回顾2020年人们都在关注哪些事件！

美国《TIME》杂志今年12月的封面上，2020的字样上打上了大大的红叉，被评价为“最糟糕的一年”。这是《TIME》杂志自1923年出版以来，第4次用上“红叉”的符号。
On the cover of TIME magazine this December, the word 2020 is marked with a big red cross, which is evaluated as “the worst year”. This is the fourth time since the publication of TIME magazine in 1923 that the symbol of “red cross” has been used.

如今2020年即将过去，让我们来通过Google搜索的热词回顾以下今年发生的重大事件以及人们关注的话题。由于可视化结果比较长，我将其分为了三个部分。
Now that 2020 is coming to an end, let’s review the following major events and topics of interest that happened this year through Google search buzzwords. Since the visualization results are quite long, I have divided them into three parts.

首先是1月底，2020年发生了第一件令世人震惊的事件，美国职业篮球联赛球星布莱恩意外去世，但热度仅持续到2月。在2月、3月的热搜是“India vs New Zealand”以及米拉麦克斯影业的联合创始人哈维·温斯坦。
Now that 2020 is coming to an end, let’s review the following major events that happened this year and the topics people are concerned about through Google search buzzwords. Since the visualization results are quite long, I have divided them into three parts. First, at the end of January, the first event that shocked the world in 2020 occurred, the unexpected death of MLB star Brian, but the fever only lasted until February. In February and March, the hits were “India vs New Zealand” and Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein.

接下来的五条热搜和全球疫情的爆发有关，分别是“新冠病毒症状”、“新冠病毒”、“新冠病毒状态更新”、“死亡”、“汉坦病毒”，搜索指数爆发均发生在3、4月份。接下来的4、5月的热搜是“谷歌教室”以及“Zoom”——一款在线视频开会软件。这两个词的热度持续了很长时间，年底的搜索指数依旧很高，很大的原因是各大学校由于疫情纷纷停止线下授课改为线上教学。
The next five hot searches were related to the global outbreak, namely “new coronavirus symptoms”, “new coronavirus”, “new coronavirus status update”, “death”, and “hantavirus”. "The search index outbreaks all occurred in March and April. The next hot searches in April and May were for “Google Classroom” and “Zoom”, an online video conferencing software. These two terms have been hot for a long time, and the search index remained high at the end of the year, in large part because major schools have stopped offline classes in favor of online instruction due to the epidemic.

从今年4、5月份开始，还有三个词上了热搜，分别是“失业”、“口罩”、“刺激性支票”。这也和疫情爆发有很大的关系，失业率大幅上涨；口罩涨价、日益稀缺；美国国家税务局(IRS) 于4月9日，开始给美国家庭发放总额3000多亿美金的新冠肺炎扶助金。
Three other words that have been in the news since April and May of this year are “unemployment”, “masks” and “stimulus checks”. This also has a lot to do with the outbreak of the epidemic. The unemployment rate has risen sharply; masks have increased in price and become increasingly scarce; and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began giving out a total of more than $300 billion in new pneumonia grants to American families on April 9.

时间来到6月份，美国又发生了一件大事，看到“GF”和“B Lives M”这两个热搜词很容易想到，美国多地爆发的“黑命贵”抗议游行事件，热度到7月份逐渐消退。“TikTok”——抖音海外版，同样是一个全年热度不减的热搜词汇，尤其到7月份开始迎来热度爆发，原因是美国开始对抖音海外版进行审查并要求字节剥离在美国的业务。
Time came to June, the United States another big event, see “GF” and “BLM” these two hot words can easily think of, the United States of America multi-location outbreak of The “BLM” protest marches broke out in many places in the United States, and the heat gradually subsided in July. “TikTok” - the overseas version of Douyin - was also a hot search term throughout the year, especially in July, when it began to explode in popularity because the U.S. began to censor the overseas version of Douyin and asked Byte Dance to divest its business in the United States.

最后来看看年底大家关心的一些事件。JoeB和DT的美国总统大选必然是年底热度最高的事件；印度的Bihar选举也在11月引起了很高的关注度。而最后一条，也是全世界从3月份就开始密切关注的话题——新冠疫苗的研制。好消息是目前世界各地的疫苗研制和测试工作已经有了较大的突破。
The US presidential election between JoeB and DT is bound to be the hottest event at the end of the year; the Bihar election in India also attracted a lot of attention in November. And the last one, a topic that the world has been following closely since March - the development of the new crown vaccine. The good news is that there have been major breakthroughs in vaccine development and testing around the world.

2020年确实是意想不到的糟糕的一年，但我们仍需要保持对生活和未来的希望。年关将至，希望2021年能好起来，希望世界和平，疫情尽快结束。
2020 is indeed an unexpectedly bad year, but we still need to keep hope for life and the future. As the year comes to an end, I hope that 2021 will be better, that the world will be peaceful and that the epidemic will end soon.

数据可视化项目网址：
https://public.tableau.com/zh-cn/gallery/googles-2020-year-search?tab=viz-of-the-day&type=viz-of-the-day