[FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

[Frank Wimberly]

FWIW the population density of New Mexico is 17/mile^2 and in India
1202/mile^2.

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:13 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think so. Doubling time (under non-ideal lockdown conditions)
> conflates density with the other measures. If a sparsely populated area has
> the same doubling time as a densely populated area, the doubling time graph
> might gloss over how *badly* the sparsely populated area is doing in
> controlling the spread. So, in order to really grok the doubling time
> graphs, you have to have a feel for the relative densities. Feel free to
> correct my faulty thinking.
>
> I think the deltas (as in the graphs I've posted) are a good compromise.
> They're still in the same units (# of people) and show larger deltas for
> larger populations. However, I *would* like to divide out area (e.g. square
> meters) of whatever region's being plotted. I think Δcases/m^2 would be
> interesting.
>
> On 5/6/20 2:49 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Doesn’t doubling time handle that problem?
>
> > On 5/6/20 12:59 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> This just underscores how hard it is to make sense out of absolute
> numbers, or more to the point, numerators without denominators.    At least
> some of the charts of absolute numbers (as long as they are not
> renormalized from situation to situation) provide a visual estimation of
> "slope".
>
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