[FRIAM] Detailed NM COVID metrics

Tue Sep 1 16:05:21 EDT 2020

Nick:
I think ZIP code maps, if seen as a one-off, are essentially useless.
Here's what I sent to some friends at the New Mexican last week.

*"The online edition of the New Mexican has many data graphics that help
readers put the virus in
context:  https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/virus/
<https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/virus/>  *

*Yet what we see in print (p. A-4 today), with one exception,  totally
fails to supply any context for the data.  Yes, the "Daily cases reported
in New Mexico" chart supplies the necessary context of change over time.
But using space and ink to print "Positive Cases By County" or "Virus
Tracker" are, essentially, meaningless numbers without any display of
statistical normalization, i.e. cases per thousand, etc.  And perhaps most
misleading is the ZIP code map of cases by ZIP?  *

*There are ~350 ZIP codes
<https://www.newmexico-demographics.com/zip_codes_by_population> in New
Mexico.  They range in population from about 80,000 to fewer than 10.  In
our local case, ZIP 87505 has about 25,000 people while 87505 has twice as
many.  To simply see a "daily" number with an arrow tells us nothing about
the rates per TK residents or the change over time in any of those ZIPs.*

*So, I fully appreciate the shortage of staff and newshole, but (a) isn't
there some way to present the data in a more meaningful way in the print
edition and, (b) why not at least direct readers of the ink-on-paper
edition to the helpful online data at the link above?"*

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Tom Johnson - tom at jtjohnson.com
Institute for Analytic Journalism   --     Santa Fe, NM USA
505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
*NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org>
*Check out It's The People's Data
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>*

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:55 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Tom,
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> Yes.  That link is to an interesting page.  The state estimated r naught
>  (1.04) is up from 0.70 in the last two weeks, but the new cases (125) and
> the test positivity rate (2.3) are holding pretty steady.   I also
> recommend looking at the dashboard
> <https://cvprovider.nmhealth.org/public-dashboard.html> map by zipcode.
> It’s frustrating because it shows only total cases, but I have been keeping
> a hand tab of daily cases, which are coming in at under ten (cf 1 or 2 in
> April).  Most of the cases are in 87507, with 505 coming net.  I wish we
> had better information on how contact tracing is working.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Tom Johnson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 1, 2020 1:30 PM
> *To:* Friam at redfish. com <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Detailed NM COVID metrics
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> Click on the link shown.
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> "New Mexico health officials have a target of performing 5,000 tests per
> day  on a seven-day average as part of its *eight-pronged gating criteria*
> <https://sfreporter.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e05a646494f869efd43620ea&id=9d7e9107fc&e=e1fd84bc43> for
> economic re-opening. Currently, the state is testing 5,376 people per day,
> down from a recent high of 7,884 on Aug. 9. The dip follows what Gov.
> Michelle Lujan Grisham characterized as a "continuing saga of challenge"
> around the country "as all of the states are competing for the commodities"
> required on both the front and back end of testing."
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> TJ
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> Tom Johnson - tom at jtjohnson.com
> Institute for Analytic Journalism   --     Santa Fe, NM USA
> 505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
> *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org>
> *Check out It's The People's Data
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