NEW: today’s update of coronavirus case trajectory tracker introduces some improvements
• Malaysia is added, and appears on a similar path to Japan
• Iran & Italy paths shifted by one day to better reflect when they reached 100 cases
Live version here: ft.com/content/a26fbf
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And here’s my explainer on log scales:
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I’m no epidemiologist, but I am a #dataviz specialist, so here are some thoughts on coronavirus and log scales:
1) In the initial outbreak phase, a virus like this spreads exponentially not arithmetically, i.e a log scale is the natural way to track the spread twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/s…
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Thanks so much for posting these instead of leaving them behind the paywall.
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Be interesting to see a doubling time chart (would also help offset testing differences between countries)
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How come China isn’t on this? Would be really interested to see pattern there
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Is there a graph with breakdowns for the US by region (NE, NW, west coast, Tri-City, etc.)?
(E.g., NYC is nearly unique within the US in not closing schools. NYC's population is equal to that of Austria's.)
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Malaysia has very different demographics than Japan. Think rural, the undocumented and homeless communities. Hygiene practices, social distancing and self- quarantine are a luxury!
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Yup! What to talk of marginalised communities, there’s absolutely no social distancing happening in urban hotspots either. We’d better brace for the worst.
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