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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">One of the first search hits is <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/census/us-population-by-zip-code" style="color:#3983C4">https://www.kaggle.com/census/us-population-by-zip-code</a><br>
—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 2 Nov 2020, at 11:59, thompnickson2@gmail.com wrote:</p>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div id="A984B63A-626F-486B-B691-0018467DA044"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="page:WordSection1"><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'>Is it possible to get population by zipcode? It seems like it’s proprietary info. </p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'> </p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'>How’s that for government transparency!</p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'> </p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'>N </p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'> </p><div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'>Nicholas Thompson</p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology</p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'>Clark University</p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a></p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a></p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'> </p><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'> </p></div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Barry MacKichan<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 2, 2020 10:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] numbers</p></div></div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'> </p><div><div><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The other thing that has me tearing out my hair (really a serious problem at this point) is the maps where they shade the state or county by the cases or deaths relative to the population. The rates are correct, but a high rate in Elko County, Nevada hits you eye but the same rate in King County, New York (aka Manhattan) is almost invisible.<br>—Barry</span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On 2 Nov 2020, at 11:09, Tom Johnson wrote:</span></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #777777 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><div id="AF0CFC4C-2B3E-4BF2-9C0B-FB0137C44FB9"><div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>Both numbers may be accurate but not particularly helpful bcs they lack context. One would have to start with, at least, a ratio of cases to some level of population, per 10,000 or 100,000,etc. </span></p><div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'> </span></p><div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>It drives me nuts that the state's health department or somebody publishes daily cases by ZIP without showing the population of those ZIPs. And then newspapers like the New Mexican publish the case numbers without context. </span></p><div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>T. </span></p></div></div></div></div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'> </span></p><div><div><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>On Mon, Nov 2, 2020, 9:01 AM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:</span></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p style='font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>Which is scarier?<br><br> -- 41 out of 50 states show an increase in COVID cases.<br> -- 105 out of 3,141 counties show an increase in COVID cases.<br><br>Which is more accurate?<br><br>Which number should guide policy?<br><br>davew<br><br>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam" target="_blank">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com" target="_blank">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/" target="_blank">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> </span></p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #777777 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt"><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<br>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com"><span style="color:#777777">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</span></a><br>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/"><span style="color:#777777">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</span></a><br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#777777">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
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