FWIW the population density of New Mexico is 17/mile^2 and in India 1202/mile^2.
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:13 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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