The 4th Surge?
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The 4th Surge?

I haven’t done this is a while so let’s see where we stand with this coronavirus thing. First, it looks like continents around the world are undergoing renewed surges, from frightening so, based upon their almost vertical rise. You can see that Europe, Asia and South America appears to be undergoing an alarming rise, so…

Power BI: When your data source does not update everyday
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Power BI: When your data source does not update everyday

When I pull coronavirus data from the CDC site, some data update more frequently than others. The data pertaining to cases and deaths appear to update daily on the afternoon of the next day whereas hospitalization may be updated weekly and testing in some infrequent fashion. The infrequency of update can cause problems with certain…

Hints of an Upsurge?
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Hints of an Upsurge?

While I’m still converting my data pull from the Covid Tracking Project to the CDC data, let’s take a look at where the US stands in regards to the pandemic. I have done enough to be able to start seeing trends – although yesterday I did run into a little problem. Now, I admit it…

Dreadful milestone: 500K dead
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Dreadful milestone: 500K dead

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…