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Genuine question for my data vis friends:What *is* the best way to color maps that will be recreated over time? With continuous data, the default color scale is based on

A paper recently came out in NEJM on COVID-19 patients using remdesivir: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016Bonovas & @piov1984 wrote a great critique pointing out that the analysis had a flaw!https://www.nejm.org/doi/fu

Here’s an overview of #COVID19 testing by @LKucirka, @justinlessler, & co on the relationship between the false negative rate (RT-PCR) & when you were tested. This is a *crucial* graph

It can be very challenging to assess what information to believe. One simple way to evaluate evidence is via something called "Hill's Criteria", considerations to help assess whether an

Prevalence of a disease plays an important role in your probability of having it given you test less relevant for testing COVID-19 infection since RT-PCR rarely (if ever) has

I’ve seen lots of folks confused about the IHME uncertainty bands: why does it look like the estimate for tomorrow is more uncertain than the estimate for months from now?

I've seen a few papers describing the characteristics of people who tested positive for COVID-19 and this is sometimes being interpreted as describing people with certain characteristic's the *probability of

There has been a lot of talk about the IHME Covid-19 projection model. @EpiEllie & I have a chat about it in tomorrow's @casualinfer episode; here is a quick description