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Coronavirus #1 – Useful Data and Links

May 14, 2020 By Nigel Marriott

Updated on 14th May 2020.  New and modified links are italicised.

The Coronavirus Pandemic is a worldwide challenge many of us will have not experienced before.  It is natural to want to seek information on the risks and in our world today, it has never been easier to find data, analyses and opinions.  Unfortunately, a lot of what you will read out there is either unhelpful or actively misleading.  As an independent statistician with 30 years experience of explaining statistics to non-statisticians, my contribution to this crisis will be to try and sort the good from the bad hence this post. [Read more…] about Coronavirus #1 – Useful Data and Links

Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: Coronavirus, Covid19, Data journalism, data quality, Epidemic, Epidemilogy, Epidemiologist, Evidence, Imperial College, Pandemic, Presenting data, SAGE, Sampling, SARS-COV-2, Testing, UK Government, Uncertainty, WHO

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