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Mnementh said:
drkohler said:

Just out of curiosity:

Why do you use such a weird y-scale no scientist would ever consider using?

Logarithmic scale is commonly used among scientists.

Yep, what he meant was my display of the Y-scale was wrong. I used standard evenly spaced lines and plotted log ( 3-day avg reported cases ) on the Y-axis to easily judge delta log ( new cases )

Displaying the scale the correct way

It doesn't matter, the slope of the lines is what I'm looking for which is the growth rate when displaying new cases at a logarithmic scale.

Iran is accelerating and reached 154% week over week growth, 11.3 days to double.
Brazil and India are currently growing at the same pace, 3-day avg of 134.7% week over week, 16.3 days to double.
The USA is at 108% week over week, slightly trending back towards decline.
Japan and South Korea had a slight uptick, holding at just over 40 new cases per day.
Australia is holding at 12 cases per day

Canada is declining at 74% week over week, 16 days to half the numbers. (All thanks to Quebec's rapid decline, Ontario is growing again atm)


Last edited by SvennoJ - on 05 June 2020