I don't think so. Doubling time (under non-ideal lockdown conditions) conflates density with the other measures. If a sparsely populated area has the same doubling time as a densely populated area, the doubling time graph might gloss over how *badly* the sparsely populated area is doing in controlling the spread. So, in order to really grok the doubling time graphs, you have to have a feel for the relative densities. Feel free to correct my faulty thinking.
I think the deltas (as in the graphs I've posted) are a good compromise. They're still in the same units (# of people) and show larger deltas for larger populations. However, I *would* like to divide out area (e.g. square meters) of whatever region's being plotted. I think Δcases/m^2 would be interesting. On 5/6/20 2:49 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Doesn’t doubling time handle that problem? > On 5/6/20 12:59 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: >> >> This just underscores how hard it is to make sense out of absolute numbers, >> or more to the point, numerators without denominators. At least some of >> the charts of absolute numbers (as long as they are not renormalized from >> situation to situation) provide a visual estimation of "slope". -- ☣ uǝlƃ .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
