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".

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