[FRIAM] Covid graph

[Eric Charles]

Frank....

Those graphs are up to today. That's what the 146,000ish deaths look like.

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Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
Department of Justice - Personnel Psychologist
American University - Adjunct Instructor
<echarles at american.edu>


On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:30 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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>> 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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