DATA NERD ALERT!

Data and Metrics

Today Google released “Community Mobility Reports” demonstrating how movement patterns have changed since social distancing’s enactment. You can check out your own community here. Link to original FB post

Why do all the models tell us something different about what to expect from the pandemic?

Data and Metrics Data Literacy

A: It is complicated, but can be summed up well in this article by 538. TL; DR there are three primary factors: 1) Exponential growth makes models have great variation (think the estimates of 200,000 deaths vs. 2 million deaths); 2) There are many unknown factors (such as regarding the true rates of infected persons); Read more…