4 ms·
Interesting idea! I wonder if this provides additional visualisation than just a line graph with a horizontal axis of Jan-Dec. Wouldn't it show the same differ
by phil-martin 5y ago
Interesting idea! I wonder if this provides additional visualisation than just a line graph with a horizontal axis of Jan-Dec. Wouldn't it show the same differences year to year?
I looked for a CSV of the data that created the chart, but I failed.
And perhaps the polar chart gives a false impression of higher values being much worse than they are, because the area is skewed so large the further out it is.
- mcculley 5y agoAuthor here. The CSV[0] comes from the CDC website[1] and you can find it in the code[2]. [0]: https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/xkkf-xrst/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true%20targe https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/xkkf-xrst/rows.csv?accessType... [1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm [2]: https://github.com/mcculley/ObservedDeathVisualizer/blob/main/src/main/java/org/enki/odv/ObservedDeathVisualizer.java#L336 https://github.com/mcculley/ObservedDeathVisualizer/blob/mai...
- mcculley 5y agoI realized I should have anchored the line in the source code to a particular commit: https://github.com/mcculley/ObservedDeathVisualizer/blob/f29f7dd194b71f4ec4eb5995ba906ccf1606b977/src/main/java/org/enki/odv/ObservedDeathVisualizer.java#L381 https://github.com/mcculley/ObservedDeathVisualizer/blob/f29...
- mcculley 5y agoI originally was doing this just for Florida. Because Florida generally has the most deaths during the dry, cold weeks at the end of January, it made it harder for me to see and show that trend on the horizontal chart as it wrapped across both ends.