Having tried something similar I have found that population is often concentrated in cities/towns. Comparing states is not as insightful. Would be good to find a frequently updated dataset at this level, otherwise the only source seems to be individual municipal websites. Staying in Goa, the reason for the high cases was initially attributed to the high number of tourists. Traffic in/out of regions could be an indicator. While the state has gone into lockdown, cases continue to rise rapidly. An IG post pointed out that Goa and Mumbai have the same number of new cases per day, while Mumbai has 13 times the population of Goa. People's behaviour seems to have some bearing on the number of cases.
Then of course, the question of testing and reporting comes in.. Is there a way to determine the data reliability of each state? Thanks for the question, Rohan. On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 8:32:25 AM UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I am a total layman when it comes to data science, so please advise me > accordingly. > > I was thinking if there is any pattern observed in Covid-19 cases in > India. Can we understand why some regions are more affected and some are > less affected? > > I took an excel sheet and took the total number of cases in each state > from https://www.mygov.in/covid-19 and the population of each state from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_territories_of_India_by_population > > . If I look at the number of cases per 1000 population it seems Delhi, Goa > and Ladakh are on top and Bihar is at the bottom. Does this have any > meaning? Does this indicate that cases have been more at locations where > there is high international traffic? > > Regards, > Debamitro > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/0ee6a30d-03d8-4ce9-928f-1378ff141ec9n%40googlegroups.com.
