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I made a simple infographic to track Covid-19's stats

ComputerGuru 7y ago
I can’t scroll if any chart is under the scroll point (iPhone). Anyway, please don’t shade countries by number of cases and use percent of population instead.
- Forge36 7y ago
  Can you touch the text to scroll? I managed to workaround to explore
- francescovaglia 7y ago
  I think it's due to the interactive graphs. Try to scroll pressing on an empty section!
  - ComputerGuru 7y ago
    I know why, but with full-width graphs that take up most of the screen, the scrolling issue is a real problem. As none of the graphs have content that needs to scroll within their viewport, you need to set the height/width/overflow/display to a combination that doesn’t cause this.
hprotagonist 7y ago
please consider not using a pie chart.
- normalnorm 7y ago
  The pie chart is fine. They can be bad when one wants to compare several similar categories, but they are fine when used to compare a part to a whole. Also it has a hole in the middle, which mitigates the problem of visual angle comparison. It's not good to blindly follow rules, just because it's fashionable to say a certain thing. Especially in the fields of data visualization and user experience, which are mostly pseudoscience bullshit anyway...
jeramyRR 7y ago
Why is South Korea missing from the stats?
- francescovaglia 7y ago
  Just fixed it, thank you!
Forge36 7y ago
I like it. There are some scrolling issues on touch devices conflicting with the interactive charts.
- francescovaglia 7y ago
  Yep, I'm just trying to fix it! Thank you :)
lousken 7y ago
I am questioning accuracy compared to https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... e.g. czech republic has 0 cases in the infographic which is false, at the time of writing this comment there are 253 cases source: ministry of health https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/0fd3a4d8-1fec-4414-8c20-ceaf8ee2f952/page/xpXIB https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/0fd3a4d8-1fec-4414-8... (which is from https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19 https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19 )
- oefrha 7y ago
  Interestingly this uses JHU data [1] (with lag because they don’t push in real time), yet somehow managed to omit part of the data, e.g. 8k cases in South Korea completely missing. [1] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
- francescovaglia 7y ago
  I just fixed it, there was a problem with the map. Anyway, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic. I will try to increase the number of updates :)
afandian 7y ago
I very strongly recommend against putting pages like this up, unless you are qualified, especially with claims like "always updated", and especially as you are giving medical advice like "stay at home". Some years ago, when I lived in a boat, I wanted better presentation of the river conditions (which you would look at if you wanted to go out for a cruise). I put something similar together. It scraped the UK's Environment Agency website and showed the status of various stretches of the River Thames on a Google Map. Just for fun. I got an angry email when the scraper broke and the data got out of date. "You're putting lives at risk". I took his point, and took the site down. The odds are much higher in this case. It might seem like a nice portfolio piece, but could be dangerous.
- steve_adams_86 7y ago
  This is on point. This is why I never released an app I made for ocean diving conditions. Hydrographic offices exist to provide accurate information, and to be liable for what they produce. I could waive liability, but then I could still endanger people. It isn't worth it. Don't give people advice, don't assume the role of a professional if you aren't one.
- Applethief 7y ago
  Data is already out of date. New Zealand has 8 confirmed cases not 5...
  - Semaphor 7y ago
    Germany is hilarious. The site is off by 2,138 confirmed cases, that was 2 days ago. We are now at 5,813.
  - francescovaglia 7y ago
    Yep, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic. I will try to increase the number of updates :)
    - 6510 7y ago
eric4smith 7y ago
Would be cool to have a country selector. It’s the “all politics is local” effect, since the global numbers really have no meaning except academic.
spectramax 7y ago
My 2 cents: - Use dense and small fonts, there is no need to follow the current trends of massive typography - Create a layout that is easy to follow - Do not highjack the scroll wheel (if you're in the zoomable region of the map, I can't scroll because it zooms instead)
boshomi 7y ago
statistics with references[1] [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
castratikron 7y ago
Shouldn't mortality rate be determined by total dead out of total recovered? Doing it the other way, total dead out of total infected, assumes everyone infected will recover.
- nihakue 7y ago
  I've read that dead / recovered overestimates since cases that end in death tend to close more quickly than cases that end with a recovery. Neither are great though and dead / cases underestimates since some of those cases might end in death as you say. Bottom line is it's hard to get good estimates and we should let epidemiologists do their job.

I can’t scroll if any chart is under the scroll point (iPhone). Anyway, please don’t shade countries by number of cases and use percent of population instead.

Forge36 7y ago
Can you touch the text to scroll? I managed to workaround to explore
francescovaglia 7y ago
I think it's due to the interactive graphs. Try to scroll pressing on an empty section!
- ComputerGuru 7y ago
  I know why, but with full-width graphs that take up most of the screen, the scrolling issue is a real problem. As none of the graphs have content that needs to scroll within their viewport, you need to set the height/width/overflow/display to a combination that doesn’t cause this.

hprotagonist 7y ago

please consider not using a pie chart.

normalnorm 7y ago
The pie chart is fine. They can be bad when one wants to compare several similar categories, but they are fine when used to compare a part to a whole. Also it has a hole in the middle, which mitigates the problem of visual angle comparison. It's not good to blindly follow rules, just because it's fashionable to say a certain thing. Especially in the fields of data visualization and user experience, which are mostly pseudoscience bullshit anyway...

jeramyRR 7y ago

Why is South Korea missing from the stats?

francescovaglia 7y ago
Just fixed it, thank you!

Forge36 7y ago

I like it. There are some scrolling issues on touch devices conflicting with the interactive charts.

francescovaglia 7y ago
Yep, I'm just trying to fix it! Thank you :)

lousken 7y ago

I am questioning accuracy compared to https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... e.g. czech republic has 0 cases in the infographic which is false, at the time of writing this comment there are 253 cases source: ministry of health https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/0fd3a4d8-1fec-4414-8c20-ceaf8ee2f952/page/xpXIB https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/0fd3a4d8-1fec-4414-8... (which is from https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19 https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19 )

oefrha 7y ago
Interestingly this uses JHU data [1] (with lag because they don’t push in real time), yet somehow managed to omit part of the data, e.g. 8k cases in South Korea completely missing. [1] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
francescovaglia 7y ago
I just fixed it, there was a problem with the map. Anyway, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic. I will try to increase the number of updates :)

afandian 7y ago

I very strongly recommend against putting pages like this up, unless you are qualified, especially with claims like "always updated", and especially as you are giving medical advice like "stay at home". Some years ago, when I lived in a boat, I wanted better presentation of the river conditions (which you would look at if you wanted to go out for a cruise). I put something similar together. It scraped the UK's Environment Agency website and showed the status of various stretches of the River Thames on a Google Map. Just for fun. I got an angry email when the scraper broke and the data got out of date. "You're putting lives at risk". I took his point, and took the site down. The odds are much higher in this case. It might seem like a nice portfolio piece, but could be dangerous.

steve_adams_86 7y ago
This is on point. This is why I never released an app I made for ocean diving conditions. Hydrographic offices exist to provide accurate information, and to be liable for what they produce. I could waive liability, but then I could still endanger people. It isn't worth it. Don't give people advice, don't assume the role of a professional if you aren't one.
Applethief 7y ago
Data is already out of date. New Zealand has 8 confirmed cases not 5...
- Semaphor 7y ago
  Germany is hilarious. The site is off by 2,138 confirmed cases, that was 2 days ago. We are now at 5,813.
- francescovaglia 7y ago
  Yep, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic. I will try to increase the number of updates :)
  - 6510 7y ago

eric4smith 7y ago

Would be cool to have a country selector. It’s the “all politics is local” effect, since the global numbers really have no meaning except academic.

spectramax 7y ago

My 2 cents: - Use dense and small fonts, there is no need to follow the current trends of massive typography - Create a layout that is easy to follow - Do not highjack the scroll wheel (if you're in the zoomable region of the map, I can't scroll because it zooms instead)

boshomi 7y ago

statistics with references[1] [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

castratikron 7y ago

Shouldn't mortality rate be determined by total dead out of total recovered? Doing it the other way, total dead out of total infected, assumes everyone infected will recover.

nihakue 7y ago
I've read that dead / recovered overestimates since cases that end in death tend to close more quickly than cases that end with a recovery. Neither are great though and dead / cases underestimates since some of those cases might end in death as you say. Bottom line is it's hard to get good estimates and we should let epidemiologists do their job.