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

[Steven A Smith]

I just found (maybe just added?) the mode setting for this one to change
deaths to deaths/100,000

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/new-mexico

settings menu-icon in the upper-right hand side of each chart.   Seems
to persist across locations.

> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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