America’s Entire Understanding of the Pandemic Was Shaped by Messy Data
To understand any data set, you have to understand the way its information is compiled. That’s especially true for a patchwork data set such as the one composed of U.S. COVID-19 data, which is the product of 56 smaller systems belonging to each state and territory in the country.In our year of working with COVID-19 data, we harnessed our attention on these systems and found that much of the information they produced reflected their individual structures.