[FRIAM] Covid graph

[Frank Wimberly]

Now, of course, the US has suffered more than 140,000 deaths.


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 7:24 PM Eric Charles <eric.phillip.charles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> TRY 2
> [image: COVID Country Comparison #2 b.jpg]
> I know some at FRIAM like to obsess over the ongoing apocalypse, so I
> thought you might appreciate this. It is the second covid graph I prepared
> for my Facebook feed. I think trying to think clearly about what's going on
> requires a data-visualization format something like this. We
> desperately want the number of confirmed cases to predict deaths, but it
> really doesn't seem to. As a data-analysis person, I find the
> non-correlation between confirmed cases and deaths fascinating. If I was
> making this specifically for FRIAM, I would put both cases and deaths on
> the same graph with two different scales, but that wouldn't work at all for
> most random people I know. I posted it to The Book of Face with this
> caption:
> ---------------
> 10 Days since my last graph... Sweden is basically done, as predicted...
> U.S. has been spiking in confirmed cases for over a month, but the
> associated uptick in deaths is already leveling off after starting two
> weeks ago, and didn't get very far. It is obviously unfortunate we didn't
> continue the downward trend we were working... but I'm not sure it was ever
> realistic for the U.S. to do that, and, if we were going to have an uptick,
> this isn't nearly as bad as it could be.
>
> -----------
> Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
> Department of Justice - Personnel Psychologist
> American University - Adjunct Instructor
> <echarles at american.edu>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:17 PM Eric Charles <
> eric.phillip.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I know some at FRIAM like to obsess over the ongoing apocalypse, so I
>> thought you might appreciate this. It is the second covid graph I prepared
>> for my Facebook feed. I think trying to think clearly about what's going on
>> requires a data-visualization format something like this. We
>> desperately want the number of confirmed cases to predict deaths, but it
>> really doesn't seem to. As a data-analysis person, I find the
>> non-correlation between confirmed cases and deaths fascinating. If I was
>> making this specifically for FRIAM, I would put both cases and deaths on
>> the same graph with two different scales, but that wouldn't work at all for
>> most random people I know. I posted it to The Book of Face with this
>> caption:
>> ---------------
>> 10 Days since my last graph... Sweden is basically done, as predicted...
>> U.S. has been spiking in confirmed cases for over a month, but the
>> associated uptick in deaths is already leveling off after starting two
>> weeks ago, and didn't get very far. It is obviously unfortunate we didn't
>> continue the downward trend we were working... but I'm not sure it was ever
>> realistic for the U.S. to do that, and, if we were going to have an uptick,
>> this isn't nearly as bad as it could be.
>> [image: COVID Country Comparison #2 b.jpg]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <echarles at american.edu>
>>
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