These graphs *do not* speak for themselves. They correspond to very very different testing regimes. The map is not the territory. We know that cases in Arizona are rising. It's worrisome. But all these comparisons with past New York are not valid and are misleading people.https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1280921756170141696 …
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Our data infrastructure is a catastrophe. The NYT had to sue to get racial breakdown from CDC; found minorities are suffering disproportionately due to workplace infections. (Someone tell their photo editors to stop posting beach pictures!) Good luck having proper age breakdowns.
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We're just going to look at the hard measures. Deaths and hospitalization plus ICU. (But not as a percentage! Hospitals add capacity so percent utilized isn't comparable with the past. Look for absolute numbers). And those are reported haphazardly and late, so... Alas.
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I feel your pain, the infinite variety of atrocious charts and maps I've seen in the last few months makes me bleed from the ears
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Any graph for US that starts before mid-April, when testing really started to ramp up, will be misleading
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Sing it! The chart deception is criminal
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There are plenty of legitimate ways to dunk on Republican states like AZ, without revealing one’s worrying innumeracy.
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I look forward to it. Years ago while researching best practices I came across people like Stephen Few and Kaiser Fung (http://junkcharts.typepad.blog ). I learned so much from them and other experts. Also, software packages make it so easy to create awful charts filled w/ eye candy.
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