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necsi / covid19

This is the repository for all of the code that necsi is writing about covid19, along with documentation.
https://endcoronavirus.org
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Models for Policy Effectiveness #4

Open olynch opened 4 years ago

olynch commented 4 years ago

Problem Statement

In order to evaluate policy effectiveness, we need to create models to tell what policies are doing.

We need to define what "success" for a policy is, and then figure out a way that the data can tell us whether a policy is successful or not.

lwhite1 commented 4 years ago

See table in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xQ8mSkRTT2T46q0GEDLUhjBnJd3dWl0_nP2DOz7Ea6c/edit

olynch commented 4 years ago

@lwhite1, that is great, can you please make a pull request adding it to docs/links.md? Also, can we store the data for these reports in such a way that people can access it programmatically, for visualizations and analysis?

lwhite1 commented 4 years ago

can you please make a pull request adding it to docs/links.md?

yes

Also, can we store the data for these reports in such a way that people can access it programmatically, for visualizations and analysis?

no. (a) much of the data is unstructured and often not easily quantifiable. (b) the effort to collect it for even one country is large

I am working on a 'scorecard' version. People can enter a rating for each category in a country-specific spreadsheet, which can then be assimilated. But they still have do a lot of work analyzing and synthesizing information to provide a reasonable and justifiable rating. The will need to use news sources and find data for their country that may not be available or even relevant for other countries.

When we have the scorecard version, country specific teams can do the analysis and documentation work. Documenting the reason behind the rating is important because countries aren't going to like their policies being criticised.

lwhite1 commented 4 years ago

I don't seem to have permission to publish my branch here to create the pull request. Am I supposed to publish to a github clone of this repo?