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Re:Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy by bargl on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:12AM (#22638156)
Wouldn't data like this make more sense in a per capita comparison? I get that we're outpacing Italy, but are we outpacing.

US population is about Italy, Spain, Germany, France, UK, and Netherlands put together.

For that matter does China even register compared to the impact this is having on Italy on a per capita basis?

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Re:Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy by Bertio on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:15AM (#22638186)
Also I think you have to look at the clusters (in a state) as independent threads growing in parallel. It makes more sense to compare individual state to European countries of similar population.
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Re:Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy by bargl on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:19AM (#22638231)
Very true. The most basic modeling of by country is not helpful, it'd be far better to show it by city, metro area, etc. And as you said each area has their own start date.

Shoot in the US most metro areas have their own quarantine date too.

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