The Importance of Moving Averages on COVID-19 Tracking Dashboards

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:06:54 +0000

I get annoyed with the way COVID-19 data is reported. There is a lot of emphasis put on the number today and on the aggregate (total cases, total deaths, etc.) These make good headline numbers but don’t do much to help people understand the current trend - are we getting better or worse.

So I built a report using the COVID-19 Tracking Project at The Atlantic’s data feed and Power BI for visualization. You can access the dashboard at bit.ly/NNCOVID19DB. The data is automatically updated several times daily.

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The Importance of Moving Averages on COVID-19 Tracking Dashboards