Comment by Peter Aptaker (peter-aptaker) on Growth rate of COVID-19 outbreaks · 2020-03-24T08:45:04.956Z · LW · GW

The first graph “Covid19 cases by Country”, and interactive graph (hhttps://chart-studio.plot.ly/~Bucky13/1/#/) seems, to me, the best way to monitor trends, so “many thanks”.

A) With LOG axes it seems unnecessary to offset the time axis to “time for 100 cases” as comparisons of growth are trivial by inspection of the slope. But the offset does prevents one the inspecting how far behind each country is. Ideally I would like an "Offset Toggle" in the interactive version

B) When might you update the data?

C) There is a huge variation in the amount of testing in each country e.g. the UK is currently well hardly even testing health workers!. Any thoughts on guessing the actual cases in each country?

D) toggle to plot Deaths instead of Cases?

Thanks again.

Comment by peter-aptaker on [deleted post] 2020-03-23T18:02:01.643Z

Graph 1 without the time offset please.

Graph1 , and interactive graph (hhttps://chart-studio.plot.ly/~Bucky13/1/#/) seems, to me, the best way to monitor trends, so “many thanks”.

A) With LOG axes it seems unnecessary to offset the time axis to “time for 100 cases” and it prevents one from the inspecting how far behind each country is. An "offset" option would be excellent (or another graph)

B) When might you update the data?

C) There is a huge variation in the amount of testing in each country e.g. the UK is currently well hardly even testing health workers!. Any thoughts on guessing the actual cases in each country?

D) Or plot Deaths instead of Cases?

Thanks again