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by boulos 2271 days ago
Nicely done, you have normalized population data! Would you mind defaulting to displaying your cases normalized by population though for the choropleth? Counties aren't uniform, and so you get wildly confusing results from showing absolute data ([1] has a great set of examples).

[1] https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/product/mapping/ma...

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For sure! Often times the COVID19 choropleths often look like population maps due to lack of normalization. We added the normalization map to try and address this. Will change the default then. Thanks for the feedback.
The data available for Colorado also includes the number of tests performed, and number of cases requiring hospitalization. If that information is uniformly available, you might consider incorporating it.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11ulhC5FwnRhiKqxDl6_9...

This is great. Thanks for sharing. Will look into finding a uniform dataset with testing and hospitalization data.
Also, take a look at the graphic on case doubling time here:

https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/die-wichtigsten-grafiken-zum-cor...

It could be helpful to see that with state level data.