From the course: Using Public Health Dashboards

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From the course: Using Public Health Dashboards

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- [Educator] Okay, so now that we've had a chance to look at these dashboards, what can you take away from what we've learned? For one thing, we've learned that counts may not be enough. Even in the best-case scenario, one in which we employ the best methodology and collect data as accurately as possible, account of the number of cases offers somewhat limited insights. The information on the dashboard is not much different than what we may hear on the news. It's a report of how many times something occurred. It would be like seeing a sports stat after the game occurred. Even the most real-time update that is provided to us via the dashboard will always experience lag. This is because information is collected in such a way that it is very difficult to have upstate information at any given point in time. In the case of the pandemic, we're looking at population data, and that requires being able to identify certain…

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