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Maria's avatar

How would she be able to deduplicate the test results? Are there unique identifiers provided by FDOH with their data that would connect them?

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polimath's avatar

There are, but there are certain methods of deduplication that are applied in the database query and are something of a matter of subjective opinion (which form of fuzzy matching is the best, etc). Additionally, if an individual tested positive for COVID and then positive for the antibody test, Ms Jones may have applied the deduplication to a query combining that data so that she is dealing only with individuals where were at one time infected.

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Curious Task's avatar

Let a thousand [dashboards] bloom!

As long as the descriptions are clear and the metrics consistent, I think having more ways to look at the underlying data is great. That said, I'm wary when people change which metrics are important depending on the narrative they're interested in. For example, country-level non-population-adjusted data was very important when the narrative was about how the US was doing worse than pretty much every other country in the world. Now, state-level, population-adjusted data is very important since that the narrative is how terrible AZ is compared to NY.

BTW, Florida has some of most open public records laws in the country. In fact, one reason there are so many Florida Man stories is that Florida is basically the only state where all those police reports are immediately publicly available.

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marginalresponse's avatar

"BTW, Florida has some of most open public records laws in the country. In fact, one reason there are so many Florida Man stories is that Florida is basically the only state where all those police reports are immediately publicly available."

I learned this fairly recently. It's such a simple, but profoundly explanatory, reason.

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John M's avatar

It's also the best "smug repellent" we have. As long as people who take themselves too seriously think it's representative of the state, they don't move there.

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