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Tue May 05 14:34:37 +0000 2020

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Also, if you're looking at density, you really need to use some of natural logarithm. NYC might have, I don't know, 50-100% more COVID-relevant social interaction than Montana per capita. It doesn't have 15000% more or whatever you'd get from the raw density numbers. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 5, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

As an aside, our alternative measure of population density, which measures the average number of people who live within a 5 mile radius of you, appears to do better with coronavirus dynamics than the traditional ones. https://t.co/1tFbvumiRF — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 5, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

That's about what you get based on our urbanization index, which seems to fit the data pretty well. I think it's not the *number* of contacts above a certain threshold that matters so much as the *amount* of contact, which is a function of space X time. https://t.co/A3PMwQa5vJ — PolitiTweet.org

Carl Bialik @CarlBialik

@NateSilver538 Curious how you got to 50-100%. Commute alone seems like it could push that much higher, for mean if not median.

Posted May 5, 2020 Hibernated

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