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    Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Mar 5
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    Seems an important chart. (From https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/from-a-scientist-coronavirus-pictures-to-ponder.html ….)pic.twitter.com/uN1neR3VMT

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      2. Kevin Kelly‏Verified account @kevin2kelly Mar 5
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        How about this chart? Just the deltas.pic.twitter.com/6vvk1YDbtV

        2 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Mar 5
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        Replying to @kevin2kelly

        More broadly, crazy to me that news articles covering the outbreak don’t feature more and more useful charts. Where present, incredibly basic/superficial. No insight.

        3 replies 1 retweet 48 likes
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      2. Tarek Amr‏ @gr33ndata Mar 5
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        Can I see this in non-logarithmic scale please?

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      3. Tarek Amr‏ @gr33ndata Mar 6
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        Tarek Amr Retweeted Tarek Amr

        Created this to show how a logarithmic scale may be misleading by showing a false plateau. Not saying that @patrickc doesn't know that, he sure knows better than me, but just in case some shares the graph without knowing.https://twitter.com/gr33ndata/status/1235893660455141379 …

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        Tarek Amr @gr33ndata
        While everyone is discussing #COVID19, lots of confusions arises from the exponential growth & logarithmic scales. Example 1: Shows how same numbers look different when a log scale is used. Example 2: Shows what it means for things to double every day; i.e. grow exponentially. pic.twitter.com/oraXAUC2Mg
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      1. Alex  🏡‏ @alekoxnra Mar 5
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        The creator of this chart should deep dive into data visualization and figure out how to make a better one.

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      2. Nathan Baschez‏Verified account @nbashaw Mar 5
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        Replying to @patrickc @tylercowen

        Basically, it matters hugely whether the virus is contained in a similar fashion as it was in China, or if it is uncontained like it was in SK?

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Brandon Wilson‏ @brandonwilson Mar 5
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        Replying to @nbashaw @patrickc @tylercowen

        It’s not contained in China, they’re importing cases like everyone else now. Also, China is probably juking the stats.

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      2. Brian McDonnell‏ @mcdonnellb Mar 5
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        Replying to @patrickc

        Chart is confusing, but I'm guessing the interpretation is that there's up to 2 orders of magnitude difference in volume of cases at 100 days, depending on how which model you base your predictions on. The US could have 10k or 10M cases at 100 days.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Christopher G‏ @galtenberg Mar 5
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        10K or 1M

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      2. Handsome Devil‏ @DukeFrankenpoon Mar 5
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        Thank god im not the only person in the comments who is having trouble deciphering this chart

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. John Covil‏ @ncsupimaster Mar 5
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        Replying to @DukeFrankenpoon @patrickc

        Same. What even is the lavender triangle series?

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