Transformations
Read before class on Sunday, March 29, 2020
Required
- STAT2 Textbook
- 1.4
- 3.4 (just the polynomial sub-section)
- Newspaper Articles/ Blog Posts
- McCardle, M. (2020, March 10). When a danger is growing exponentially, everything looks fine until it doesn’t. The Washington Post.
- Chang, K. (2020, March 20). A Different Way to Chart the Spread of Coronavirus. The New York Times.
Recommended
- Newspaper Articles/ Blog Posts
- Burn-Murdoch, J. (2020, March 25). Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads. Financial Times. (Just look at the figures/graphs, paying attention to the y-axes and shape of trends)
- This twitter thread from [@jburnmurdoch](https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch), the data viz person from the FT* who created the graphs in the above reading
I’m no epidemiologist, but I am a #dataviz specialist, so here are some thoughts on coronavirus and log scales:
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 11, 2020
1) In the initial outbreak phase, a virus like this spreads exponentially not arithmetically, i.e a log scale is the natural way to track the spread https://t.co/a6lePGY6wH
- A former Smithie Christine Zhang just joined the data journalism team at FT – they’re clearly a good group!