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Covid-19 interactive graph of cases by US County using latest NYTimes data

21 pointsby scottfitsabout 5 years ago

4 comments

panarkyabout 5 years ago
Using a linear Y-axis without normalizing by population is misleading.<p>For example, Los Angeles vs. San Francisco -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;k4SykrJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;k4SykrJ</a><p>The chart makes it appear that LA is a raging wildfire, while SF is under control.<p>Actually, LA has 2 cases per 10000 while SF has 4 cases per 10000. SF is twice as bad but you wouldn&#x27;t know it from the chart.<p>You could use a log scale for the Y-axis, and while this doesn&#x27;t solve the population problem, at least you can compare the rate of growth or trajectory to judge how well the county is controlling the spread.
boneitisabout 5 years ago
Does anyone see where to find the latest data?<p>Even this website posted is running off of the old data.<p>The CSV dump from the NYT repo is out of date, although the heavy website and very fluffy news article from the data source has much fresher numbers.<p>I was hoping be able to quickly look up localized data with a quick bash command every time my threshold of morbid curiosity is breached, but the data is a couple days old.<p>P.S.,<p>Thank you OP for bringing awareness to this data source.<p>Refreshing the Wikipedia page for the pandemic with numbers by country was starting to lose its relief&#x2F;reward factor to my feedback loop.
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jacobolusabout 5 years ago
Charts with linear scale are nearly useless for gaining meaningful insight about the progress of exponential growth.
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dplgkabout 5 years ago
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