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iroqOP5y ago

All the informational dashboards I've seen so far have two main problems for me:

1) they show total cases including recoveries and deaths by default, bumping up countries like China

2) they sort by total cases which pushes high population countries high

The info I'm looking for is generally "how bad is it everywhere, right now". So I spent a couple evenings to hook into the Bing dashboard and create this minimalist breakdown off of it. Comments welcome!

fomojola5y ago

Is there a reason that as of 8:38pm EST on Saturday March 28, there is no information about China in the list? Might be an honest mistake (and I am expecting it to get fixed) but it makes me question the accuracy of all the other number

EDIT: no India either.

iroqOP5y ago

China and India have an extremely small infection percentage - all the areas below 0.001% are filtered out. You're right, that's likely very misleading - I'll leave them in for completeness.

covid-191919195y ago

Number of deaths is more interesting, since they usually keep track of that for all that die. This data does not give any good insight since all countries do not test the same amount of people relative to their population.

abraxas5y ago

What’s the point when testing rates are so inconsistent across the world?

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5 comments

iroqOP5y ago

All the informational dashboards I've seen so far have two main problems for me:

1) they show total cases including recoveries and deaths by default, bumping up countries like China

2) they sort by total cases which pushes high population countries high

fomojola5y ago

EDIT: no India either.

iroqOP5y ago

China and India have an extremely small infection percentage - all the areas below 0.001% are filtered out. You're right, that's likely very misleading - I'll leave them in for completeness.

covid-191919195y ago

abraxas5y ago

What’s the point when testing rates are so inconsistent across the world?

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