Analysis

Yesterday I was going to write a little bit about a certain type of graph but I was tired and it was getting late. What I want to talk about is how moving average compares against the daily reporting of numbers. This particular graph struck me as a particular good example of how moving averages…

My productivity levels have been low since the inauguration; maybe it is just a come down from the nerves and anxiety since November 3rd, so exhaustion is now setting in. With that, I’m going to try to keep this post rather light and quick. I think in the last post I mentioned that cases and…

I haven’t mentioned this before when I noticed this event because other news just took over. So I just want to drop off a note on this 4000 threshold. Whether I look at the data from the Covid Tracking Project or from the John Hopkins University, we crossed the 4000 daily deaths threshold in January….

If you can’t see it, that’s because it will be a couple of more months, if not a year, before we start to see the coronavirus tamed. A couple of factors for this dismal outlook: 1. We did a lot of traveling over the holidays despite warnings from health officials. Here are the TSA travel…

On Friday, Jan 1st, as I was doing my nightly ritual – updating my files with the latest coronavirus data – I got a weird image. That long blue vertical line at the front of the graph, around January 1st? That is supposed to be January 1, 2021. Originally, the dates from Wikipedia looked like…