I made this visual using R 3.6.1 and ggplot with data from the New York Times (https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data). These regions are defined by the US Census Bureau.
If you like detailed and in-depth visualizations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, check out my subreddit, r/CovidDataDaily.
If you have any questions, comments, or critiques about this visual, please let me know!
I feel like breakout on the left - by region is telling the main story here. The main graphic is hard to interpret without it, so I’m glad you included it. Makes me feel better about living in the NE though.
Since this chart deals with absolute number of cases, it's important to note that US census regions are pretty substantially different in size. Here are the 2019 population estimates of each region from the Census.gov website, and their percentage of the total US population:
![image showing [OC] A regional breakdown of the United States COVID-19 curve](431e70f0-01b4-5299-8e71-09d8e2e5eea9.jpg)
bgregory98 on June 23rd, 2020 at 15:26 UTC »
I made this visual using R 3.6.1 and ggplot with data from the New York Times (https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data). These regions are defined by the US Census Bureau.
If you like detailed and in-depth visualizations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, check out my subreddit, r/CovidDataDaily.
If you have any questions, comments, or critiques about this visual, please let me know!
AskMoreQuestionsOk on June 23rd, 2020 at 16:04 UTC »
I feel like breakout on the left - by region is telling the main story here. The main graphic is hard to interpret without it, so I’m glad you included it. Makes me feel better about living in the NE though.
Backwaterguy on June 23rd, 2020 at 18:02 UTC »
Since this chart deals with absolute number of cases, it's important to note that US census regions are pretty substantially different in size. Here are the 2019 population estimates of each region from the Census.gov website, and their percentage of the total US population:
Northeast: 55,982,803 - 17.1% Midwest: 68,329,004 - 20.8% West: 78,347,268 - 23.9% South: 125,580,448 - 38.3%There is an extra 0.1%, probably due to rounding error. https://www.census.gov/popclock/data_tables.php?component=growth