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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE
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Mechanism to adjust US Covid cases by different groups #284

Open ciscorucinski opened 4 years ago

ciscorucinski commented 4 years ago

In all other countries, all the cases are grouped to the country-level; however, in the US, it is grouped by county. This can make the US look safer. Singapore has half the number of cases, but the Singapore circle is larger than the circles in the US. Yes, there are more circles in the US, but they are very small.

The current layout for the US has a lot of benefits, and I would like to see mechanisms in place that allow different grouping options such as "by state", "by region", or "by country". This would only change the circles in the US.

It would be great to get as localized as possible in other countries, but I don't see that as ever happening. So by changing the grouping option for the US, it would allow users to see the highly localized results while also giving users the option to compare apples-to-apples with other countries. Win-win

JiPiBi commented 4 years ago

As it is difficult to change such a dataset (already used by numerous people) , I think that you , as I did, have to implement your own code or app.

ciscorucinski commented 4 years ago

This shouldn't require a change to the dataset at all - especially for grouping via the US or State as that data already exists

JiPiBi commented 4 years ago

If you are only speaking of a specific exploitation of the same dataset, without changing existing data, you only have to convince the developpers of the App. Good luck

When you look at the aggregate data for US , the total number of confirmed is not quite important, but the global death ratio is quite high for the moment, about the same than in China and Italy.

ciscorucinski commented 4 years ago

@JiPiBi It looks like they made some change with respect to this posted issue. Although, I would suggest some UI changes (i.e. checkboxes) that would render the cases by specific levels and not just the static state level as of this new change.

JiPiBi commented 4 years ago

@ciscorucinski On my side , I didnt get significant differences apart that the data for a same country seem to be different between mobile and desktop versions,

(https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues/368)

CSSEGISandData commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the suggestion. We will keep that idea of more granularity in other countries in mind when building out future capabilities.