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Understanding metrics

Understanding metrics

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Understanding metrics

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- [Instructor] Dashboards can show us a lot of information in different formats. In particular, we can see data, we can see metrics, and we can also see visualizations. And the beauty of a dashboard is that it shows us all of this information in one view. So in this video, I'm going to show you the different metrics that are commonly found in COVID-19 dashboards and the definitions associated with the different numbers and visualizations that you will see when you visit any one of these websites. So here we have the John Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering's dashboard for COVID-19, which is one of the most popular dashboards that are currently available. We can see that it has several metrics and visualizations available. On the left we have the number of confirmed cases. On the upper-right, we see the number of deaths. And on the lower-right, we can see that there's a visualization of the…

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