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I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by francescovaglia »

mettamage wrote: post #29
francescovaglia wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really thanks for your suggestions! I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website. I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable. Also, the line at the end is a simple suggestion that any government is trying to say to the population to avoid overcrowding…

> I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website. I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable. No, I know enough people that don't. Look into the low educated part of your family (if you have that part). In my family the low educated people will believe a…

I just inserted a disclaimer on the top. Thank you for the suggestions!

Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by ComputerGuru »

francescovaglia wrote: post #16
ComputerGuru wrote: post #2

I can’t scroll if any chart is under the scroll point (iPhone). Anyway, please don’t shade countries by number of cases and use percent of population instead.

I think it's due to the interactive graphs. Try to scroll pressing on an empty section!

I know why, but with full-width graphs that take up most of the screen, the scrolling issue is a real problem. As none of the graphs have content that needs to scroll within their viewport, you need to set the height/width/overflow/display to a combination that doesn’t cause this.

Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by francescovaglia »

afandian wrote: post #28
francescovaglia wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really thanks for your suggestions! I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website. I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable. Also, the line at the end is a simple suggestion that any government is trying to say to the population to avoid overcrowding…

I think my experience was similar to yours. The reason I made it was to make the presentation of interesting data more accessible. But the lesson I took from it is that people put data to all kinds of uses, including those I didn't think about. I was really surprised by that email, but it was enough to make me understand. If you linked to your sources, show prominently the last time the data was updated, don't give a…

Just put a disclaimer with the last update on the top. I will edit the suggestions soon, thank you

Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by 6510 »

francescovaglia wrote: post #26
Applethief wrote: post #14

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Data is already out of date. New Zealand has 8 confirmed cases not 5...

Yep, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic. I will try to increase the number of updates :)

"Only 0.0019% of the population has the virus"

This is not at all the same thing as the earlier mentioned "confirmed".

Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by 6510 »

francescovaglia wrote: post #23
afandian wrote: post #10

I very strongly recommend against putting pages like this up, unless you are qualified, especially with claims like "always updated", and especially as you are giving medical advice like "stay at home". Some years ago, when I lived in a boat, I wanted better presentation of the river conditions (which you would look at if you wanted to go out for a cruise). I put something similar together. It scraped the UK's Enviro…

Really thanks for your suggestions! I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website. I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable. Also, the line at the end is a simple suggestion that any government is trying to say to the population to avoid overcrowding…

Get rid of it entirely, you have no way of words, you have no writing skills. Does one figure out one has symptoms at home? I am to make a call and I have to do it with a phone?

Clearly state you are a programmer and why you've made the page. Then it is cool. Nice visuals... WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by francescovaglia »

6510 wrote: post #36
francescovaglia wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really thanks for your suggestions! I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website. I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable. Also, the line at the end is a simple suggestion that any government is trying to say to the population to avoid overcrowding…

Get rid of it entirely, you have no way of words, you have no writing skills. Does one figure out one has symptoms at home? I am to make a call and I have to do it with a phone? Clearly state you are a programmer and why you've made the page. Then it is cool. Nice visuals... WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Made it. Thank you, nice suggestion :)

Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by nihakue »

castratikron wrote: post #33

Shouldn't mortality rate be determined by total dead out of total recovered? Doing it the other way, total dead out of total infected, assumes everyone infected will recover.

I've read that dead / recovered overestimates since cases that end in death tend to close more quickly than cases that end with a recovery. Neither are great though and dead / cases underestimates since some of those cases might end in death as you say.

Bottom line is it's hard to get good estimates and we should let epidemiologists do their job.

Re: I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

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Post by 6510 »

francescovaglia wrote: post #37
6510 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get rid of it entirely, you have no way of words, you have no writing skills. Does one figure out one has symptoms at home? I am to make a call and I have to do it with a phone? Clearly state you are a programmer and why you've made the page. Then it is cool. Nice visuals... WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Made it. Thank you, nice suggestion :)

I think it would be cool if you made an organized list of other similar data pages. Local ones for example.

This is NL: https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-kaart-van-nederland

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