Calculate daily positive test rate from values.tested_total and values.infected for higher precision

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Calculate daily positive test rate from values.tested_total and values.infected for higher precision #22

Closed EwoutH closed 3 years ago

EwoutH commented 3 years ago

First of all, thanks for the amazing work done daily!

Currently values.infected_percentage in data-dashboards/percentage-positive-daily-national.csv is rounded to one decimal. With the high infections rates currently not a big problem, but once we (hopefully ever) go back to the <2% rate the decrease in precision is quite significant.

For the plots it would be better to calculate them from the source data, so values.infected / values.tested_total (and * 100 for percents).

mzelst commented 3 years ago

Hi Ewout,

You're welcome :)

I agree that more precision would be better (including calculation from source). I will update that next week (it's in the workflow schedule) but given limited time this week, I focused on getting the data out in a usable form for now. Will get back to it!

Marino