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A couple of days ago, the US reached a terrible milestone of 500,000 dead. Here’s Wednesday’s snapshot of data from 3 different sources: Wikipedia, Covid Tracking Project and the John Hopkins University. I made the image full width so you can see the numbers. The news uses the John Hopkins University data when telling their…
A couple of posts ago I wrote about why I was tracking the coronavirus using Power BI. One of my goal was to practice asking interesting questions that would bring out something unusual or astonishing or just plain interesting. In other words, try to think of something that no one else was doing because I…
A couple of posts ago, when I was discussing the three ways of creating calculations (measures, new columns in Power Query, and new columns in the charting/visualization view), there was at one point in the post an image of 2 moving average measures and I mentioned that I would do a post about why I…
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….