Thank you Dave! This helps so much. On Wednesday, 18 March 2020 08:42:05 UTC+2, Dave Liepmann wrote: > > I'm glad to see people coming together to look at coronavirus data. > > As a non-epidemiologist who is also exploring covid19 data I found this > article > <https://medium.com/nightingale/ten-considerations-before-you-create-another-chart-about-covid-19-27d3bd691be8> > > [1] a timely reminder that our responsibility is heightened with these > projects, and scales as our work is more widely seen. We have to take care > that our visualizations and analyses don't misrepresent the situation. This > line summed it up for me: > > >Just because you *can* perform a mathematical function on a set of > health statistics doesn’t mean you *should*. > > As non-subject-matter-experts this is a time to be humble. Of course we > should still look at the data, but we must be careful. I'm particularly > skeptical now of any work that assumes that case reports in certain > countries (e.g. the US) are within even two orders of magnitude of the > ground truth. > > [1] > https://medium.com/nightingale/ten-considerations-before-you-create-another-chart-about-covid-19-27d3bd691be8 > > > On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 9:29:53 PM UTC+1, Daniel Slutsky wrote: >> >> Hello everybody. >> >> We are organizing an online Clojure hackathon for studying COVID-19 data. >> >> Please mark your preferred dates: >> https://twitter.com/scicloj/status/1240010550555353088 >> >> Wishing you good health and better times. >> >
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