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Auto-updating statistics on the 2014 ebola outbreak in D3 & call to actions for charity
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Line plot masks non-daily reporting increments #18

Closed trvrb closed 10 years ago

trvrb commented 10 years ago

Drawing a line masks the data. Here are the raw points:

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You can see that there are often stretches of ~5 days, where counts of cumulative cases do not change. This is not from a lack of real cases, it's just due to reporting increments. I think it would be more accurate to show points (and a line connecting them) only for days in which there is an increase in count. This would be the first point in these stretches.

colinmegill commented 10 years ago

Ah, @trvrb I obviously missed this in my last reply - we're on exactly the same page. I'll take care of that.