Putting things in context

“Not going back.”

This is a list of things that, once the Covid-19 thing is handled, are probably never going back. In no particular order. Buying toilet paper or other paper goods in a physical store. In-person house closings. Offices full of people who could work for home / viewing working from home as a perk. Non-essential work […]

Syndromic Surveillance Covid-19: Graph

This page is part of the Syndromic Surveillance and Covid–19 collection of articles at Thoughtfaucet. Please see the Caveats section in particular to better understand the limitations of data and methods.

Syndromic Surveillance & Covid-19 Caveats

This article is part of the Syndromic Surveillance and Covid-19 collection on Thoughtfaucet. There are caveats to all data projects. I do not believe any of these undermine the work and thinking. But they are important to note (and I hope you mention other caveats as well–it improves the project) and discuss if necessary. But […]

Syndromic Surveillance and Covid-19

Here’s a link to the Syndromic Surveillance Covid-19 NYC graph. Please also see Caveats for this project. During the Covid-19 outbreak of early 2020 I started working on some graphs with data about the NYC emergency department case counts. This page is a collection of the different aspects of that project.

Coronavirus: Estimating future ER load in NYC

An image of Lake Champlain for the Covid-19 Syndromic Surveillance article about ER capacity in NYC

The above graph uses the NYC Health EpiQuery data (ILI case counts) as of 1:47pm EST March 24, 2020 and the NYC Health & Mental Hygiene’s 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Daily Data Summary (tested positive Covid-19 and Covid-19 deaths) as of 9:45am March 24, 2020.

Why do ad clicks not match up with Google Analytics data?

This is a question I get just about every week. Someone has an advertising distributor that charges by and reports by clicks. Those clicks don’t match up to the number in Google Analytics. Much worry ensues. Here’s my standard answer on this topic, it covers most sitatuations: Ad clicks and GA data: Differences between […]

Pattern Recognition: Entryways

Anything that flows information or physical objects in one direction, can likely feed them in the other direction as well. Often this is clear and obvious, but in moments when time and attention are not available the “opposite direction” is less obvious. Learning to identify the pattern of Entryways can be useful in strategic considerations. In a defensive […]

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