<div dir="ltr">Perhaps of interest....<br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Now a <a href="https://urbanobservatory.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=ad46e587a9134fcdb43ff54c16f8c39b">new series of interactive maps</a> has added several layers of context to the much-cited coronavirus statistics provided by Johns Hopkins University. The series, by spatial analytics firm Esri, analyzes recent COVID-19 cases at the county level to help determine whether counties could be on the verge of an outbreak or not. The data is then broken down and classified into one of five stages:<br><ul><li>Emergent: Early stages of outbreak</li><li>Spreading: Early stages and depending on an administrative area’s capacity, this may represent a manageable rate of spread</li><li>Epidemic: Uncontrolled spread</li><li>Controlled: Very low levels of new cases</li><li>End Stage: No new cases</li></ul><div>TJ </div>============================================<br>Tom Johnson - <a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a><br>Institute for Analytic Journalism   --     Santa Fe, NM USA<br>505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)<br><a href="http://nmfog.org" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0b5394">NM Foundation for Open Government</font></b></a><br><b><font color="#0000ff">Check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671" target="_blank">It's The People's Data</a></font></b>                 </div><div>============================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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