Ronin
Legacy Member
The choice of increments and using Logs is pretty suspect, I'd have to look into the statistical reasoning as to why you would. But those increments on the y-axis make no sense to me.
I get that you'd use a 7-day moving average and logs to smooth out the data, but is it really appropriate in this case? Especially when the time series is so short and we're mostly interested in current trends, not lagging ones.
Usually, you use logarythmic scales when the first set of data are not important and you are trying to just "skip over it". I don't see how we would want to "skip" over any deaths.
Also, by nature of logarythmic scales... the more death you have, the flatter the curve will look. It makes no fuckin sense and people who have been judging the situation based on these are being miss-informed.
Even fuckin worst, look a this graph, not only is it logarythmic on the Y axis, but it is also brought down on 1/1 000 000 ratio... nice way to paint a picture that most people can't make head and tail.