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Data, Statistics and COVID-19
The world is facing a pandemic on a scale that has not been seen since the “Spanish Flu” of 1919. Today the world has global travel to spread the virus much more quickly and the Internet to inform (or misinform) everyone. It is the first pandemic we are seeing in close to real time.
The numbers are stark. With what we know, if no action is taken then 70% of the population may be infected. Perhaps 1% of infections might be fatal. That suggests 175,000 fatalities in Australia. Such an outcome would be comparable to the Spanish Flu. Fortunately no country has failed to take any action and the fatalities are much lower than that.
As statisticians and data scientists, we at Data Analysis Australia see this very much from the data. COVID-19 provides an illustration of data saving lives, in keeping with the tradition of that pioneer of both statistics and nursing, Florence Nightingale.
Earlier Newsletter articles:
- Happy Birthday to Us
- Memories of Data Analysis Australia
- A History of Data Analysis Australia
- How Real is Artificial Intelligence?
- Always New
- Conferring Statisticians
- Counting What You Can't See
- Distilling the Essence from Large and Complex Data Sets
- It's a Long(itudinal) Way to the Top
- Think Global, Act Local
- Planning for Risk
- A Biostatistics Tasting Plate
- Extracting Value from Data
- Mapping - Providing Direction
- Is Near Enough Ever Good Enough?
- Is it Real and is it Important?
- Crime and cancer, what’s the common ground?
- 2014 Australian Statistical Conference
- Innovation in Statistics
- Surveys - Not Just for People
- 2013 Young Statisticians' Workshop
- Manipulating the Masses
- Census Data - Beyond the Figures
- Survey Best Practice
- 2013 Australian Statistical Conference
- Role of a Statistician
- Making Sense of Complex Data
- The Importance of Good Data
- Change is inevitable, but is it real?
- Surveys and Technology
- How Extreme is Extreme?
- 2010 Australian Statistical Conference
- How Many 'Bad Apples' Are Too Many?
- What is a Data Analysis Australia Consultant?
- Hockey Sticks, Climate and Statistics
- Is the Price Right and How Do You Choose?
- Will Australia Count in the Future?
- Shoemakers' Lasts and Model Ships
- Seeing the Unforeseeable
- Celebrating Diversity
- Imagining Numbers
- The Invisible Statistician
- Statistics In Space
- Planning For Work
- Measuring Our Environment
- Safety in Numbers
- The Value of Information
- When Can You Ignore It?
- Market Research
- PARTS
- Optimal Solution
- 2004 Australian Statistical Conference
- Quality Assurance
- Trade-offs
- Modelling Risk
- 2004 Australian Statistical Conference
- Quality Assurance
- Trade-offs
- Modelling Risk
- Albany Courts
- Lotto
- 15th Anniversary
- Future Statisticians
- Weather Data
- IT and the Classroom
- Fisheries Research
- Census Data
- The Value of Pilots
- WA's Tourism Activity Barometer