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rbracco / covidcompare

Project to map covid19 risk in the US
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Improve Visualizations #34

Open rbracco opened 4 years ago

rbracco commented 4 years ago

We use Chart.js for our visualizations. They were recently added and could be substantially improved. The main issue is that there is nothing to compare. It would be nice to

  1. Be able to directly compare two states/counties.
  2. Show a gray line representing the national average. In the per capita case this would be simple. In the non per-capita case (i.e. total cases) this would require dividing by the national population and multiplying by the population of the state or county being displayed.
  3. Show percent daily growth as it is a leading indicator of the curve flattening. This may not be useful because the variance in these numbers, even at the state level, is quite high.