Aside from that, it's very important to remember that this dashboard shows confirmed cases, not infections. Trends and patterns are as much about testing/reporting as about the virus itself.
Total number of confirmed infections is a misleading metric. Criteria for testing constantly changes everywhere. Test kits become more (or less) available. Hospital resources are allocated differently based on changing situation, etc. Two random examples:
* March 15th, Southern Finland - "Coronavirus testing to focus on health professionals. … people returning from trips abroad will not necessarily be tested, let alone all of the people suffering flu symptoms." https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/hus_coronavirus_testing_t...
It's called a semi-log plot. X is linear time, Y is log population count. The slope of exponential-like acceleration phase indicates the growth rate.
PS: this type of data is much better modeled by relatively simple ordinary differential equations because the rate of change of a communicable disease is proportional to the number infected.
Really cool work! Would be interesting to fit a logistic as well to see if any case curve flattening can be seen. I plotted the points for Italy and it seems like the growth rate is decreasing.
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May all that is just a limitation of the visme.co site, though.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 25.8 ms ] threadI'd love to see per-country graphs for new infections, recoveries and deaths.
Looking at the world graph it appears that the infection rate is slowing down on March 18th. I hope it's true!
* March 15th, Southern Finland - "Coronavirus testing to focus on health professionals. … people returning from trips abroad will not necessarily be tested, let alone all of the people suffering flu symptoms." https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/hus_coronavirus_testing_t...
* UK NHS now recommends simply staying at home and not even contacting them in mild cases. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isol...
https://tonybox.net/posts/covid19/
PS: this type of data is much better modeled by relatively simple ordinary differential equations because the rate of change of a communicable disease is proportional to the number infected.
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(1a) It requires me to horizontally scroll rather than re-flowing anything to fit my browser window width (1114 pixels).
(1b) It defeats the ability to scroll left and right using arrow keys. On some pages, left clicking in some text will restore that, but not in this case.
(2) It defeats the ability to vertically scroll using Page Up and Page Down keys. Arrow key up and down still work as do Home and End. And like in (1b), left clicking doesn't restore it.
May all that is just a limitation of the visme.co site, though.
As well India which has a bigger population and like Russia is closer to China then any North or South American country.
This virus is suspicious!