Chance there's one person infected with Covid19 in a gathering of 10 people in different regions/countries [OC]

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Gravity_Beetle on November 26th, 2020 at 04:23 UTC »

Comparing numbers from China and Ohio as though they are categories on a similar level seems fraught

SkyFullofHat on November 26th, 2020 at 04:55 UTC »

Why does it go: a bunch of states, a bunch of countries, a city, a couple more countries, a few states, and another country? It's not organized by percentage, or population, or alphabetically. Why this particular order?

I'm here mainly for the pretty graphs and don't know a ton about data analysis/visualization, so I may be missing something that someone more familiar with graphing styles might know.

thesirknee on November 26th, 2020 at 05:34 UTC »

How the living fuck is the x axis sorted?