 |
| Image: Tech Crunch |
If the value is greater than 1 that means that the spread was rapid and growing, the higher the value above 1 the higher the spread, and the lower the value below 1 the better the situation is and means the spread is slowing down. Georgia has the highest value of 1.5 and Vermont has the lowest of just 0.33, meanwhile New York which the worst among other states has a value of 0.55 currently.
This may indicate the government measures are working and New York may be got past the peak point. Mike Kreiger told Tech Crunch "Kevin has been writing and publishing open-source data analysis notebooks on how to calculate Rt on a daily basis. We wanted to take that work and visualize it so anyone can see how their state is doing at curbing the spread."
The app has filters that will let you pick a region like west or south to see how different parts of the country are doing and also filter through states that did not implement shelter-in-place orders and see how they are doing without many restrictions and compare them which those that have implemented restrictions.
Kevin Systrom has studied virality during his time developing Instagram to help it grow rapidly and he also published statistical models that help track coronavirus infections and deaths from March 19th and on the other Krieger said that his "first job out of school was actually doing data visualizations/analysis at Meebo so a blast from the past in more ways than one."
Mike Kreiger said, "We built Rt.live because we believe Rt, the effective infection rate, is one of the best ways to understand how COVID is spreading, It was great to work together again, we were able to take it from idea to launch in just a few days because of all our history & shared context."
Comments
Post a Comment
Comment your thoughts and feedback