(04-17-2020, 01:32 PM)BostonCard Wrote:(04-17-2020, 07:29 AM)burger Wrote: These sorts of reports are coming in from all over the world. I don't have the links, but my rough estimate from looking at a bunch of these was that the final number will end up being 2x the reported numbers.
Also, whoever made that NYC graph (the economist?) needs to have their license to plot data revoked for having different scales on the X-axes that make it impossible to compare the timing of the peaks. But, to my eye at least, it looks like the home deaths are still climbing while the official count is decreasing. That's scary.
The economist graph is truncated.
BC
It wasn't the truncation that was a problem--it's just a bad graph. The scale on the x-axis of the right panel (in days per inch) is different from the scale on the other two. That makes the slopes impossible to compare across plots, and it makes it hard to know where the decline in reported cases fits in relative to the other deaths.
As someone who spends an inordinate (no pun intended) amount of time making graphs, bad graphs are a personal bugbear.