Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Say you have two countries that each have cases growing at 30% per day. However, on Day 10 of the outbreak, country A undertakes an intervention where growth slows to 10% per day. This makes a huge difference, even after a few days—and you can see on a chart with a linear axis. https://t.co/EnJSMLNlX7 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 25, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I have a 🔥 take about how charts showing the cumulative number of coronavirus cases on a logarithmic scale are actually pretty easy to misinterpret. This is the quick half-assed version of it because I'm too lazy right now to make nice-looking graphs. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 25, 2020 Hibernated

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But on a log scale the countries barely look any different, even though A's intervention is hugely important and already reduced cases by 50%. Don't assume the log scale is always the way to visualize this data; sometimes it is, but sometimes it obscures the most important info. https://t.co/ob7w2UX0Qi — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 25, 2020 Hibernated