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The Economist's model to estimate excess deaths to the covid-19 pandemic
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
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Question: Why Filter out U.S. State of Georgia? #2

Closed jschulberg closed 3 years ago

jschulberg commented 3 years ago

Hi all, great work on the code, model, and visualizations with this! Just curious why you filter out the U.S. State of Georgia in your first script. Thanks, Justin

sondreus commented 3 years ago

Hi Justin. Thank you for the kind words. This is just to avoid any potential conflation with the country of Georgia! The iso3c mapping through countrycode builds on area names, hence the possibility for confusion and need to avoid it. Hope this helps.

All the best, Sondre