| drkohler said: Just out of curiosity: Why do you use such a weird y-scale no scientist would ever consider using? |
It's a simple logarithmic scale, used mostly to display total cases on graphs. I find it useful for daily cases as well to be able to better judge the changes, the slope of the plotted lines. A 20% increase is the same anywhere on the graph, while on a linear scale any increase/decrease in Japan and South Korea would be invisible when putting them together with USA and Brazil. The steady (exponential) increase in Brazil and India would be hard to compare.
Linear scale does look more dramatic for the big hitters and true, this scale distorts the proportions between countries. Canada is less than 4% of USA while it looks closer to 60% on that scale. Yet on a linear scale any movement in Canada's numbers wouldn't be visible. I'm interested in the growth rates, increase / decline, rate of change. The 'hard' numbers aren't that reliable anyway and off by a factor 5 to 30 depending on the country. Rate of change is more reliable as long as countries don't change methods around too much.
