I spent this weekend preparing for my first big get-together in a COVID world. This event was not actually very big, just a few people whom I trust when they say they haven’t been in contact with the outside world in the last two weeks. But we spent time together outdoors and we definitely were not 6 feet apart at all times. And there was a bouncy house.
As long as the descriptions are clear and the metrics consistent, I think having more ways to look at the underlying data is great. That said, I'm wary when people change which metrics are important depending on the narrative they're interested in. For example, country-level non-population-adjusted data was very important when the narrative was about how the US was doing worse than pretty much every other country in the world. Now, state-level, population-adjusted data is very important since that the narrative is how terrible AZ is compared to NY.
BTW, Florida has some of most open public records laws in the country. In fact, one reason there are so many Florida Man stories is that Florida is basically the only state where all those police reports are immediately publicly available.
How would she be able to deduplicate the test results? Are there unique identifiers provided by FDOH with their data that would connect them?
Let a thousand [dashboards] bloom!
As long as the descriptions are clear and the metrics consistent, I think having more ways to look at the underlying data is great. That said, I'm wary when people change which metrics are important depending on the narrative they're interested in. For example, country-level non-population-adjusted data was very important when the narrative was about how the US was doing worse than pretty much every other country in the world. Now, state-level, population-adjusted data is very important since that the narrative is how terrible AZ is compared to NY.
BTW, Florida has some of most open public records laws in the country. In fact, one reason there are so many Florida Man stories is that Florida is basically the only state where all those police reports are immediately publicly available.