File talk:COVID-19 outbreak USA per capita cases map.svg

Transition to county-level data

@Ythlev: thanks for your work putting together and updating this map. I noticed that the NYT has been using county-level data in their map, which provides a better overview since e.g. it doesn't make it look like upstate New York is much worse than Vermont. They put their data on GitHub. Could we start using that or other open data to create our own county-level map? Sdkb (talk) 23:48, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

You can certainly try; I don't have too much time for it. The thing is every country and dataset have some specific issue to solve before a map can be made. A while ago JHU already provided county data, but it was incomplete so I gave up. This dataset seems to not have NYC boroughs, which I don't know if they are counties or not, and I can't find a county map with NYC combined, nor do I really feel like making one. Ythlev (talk) 06:39, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Would this be something the graphics lab might be able to help with? If so, I can make a post there. Sdkb (talk) 21:00, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

• This says per capita, does it actually measure per million people? If it was per capita I would expect the figures to start 0.0, and probably 0.00. Cases of more than one per capita are only possible if some people are being reinfected. WereSpielChequers (talk) 12:08, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Moving legend to caption

For both stylistic and accessibility reasons, I think the legend should be moved to the caption and removed from the main image. (It's also because the units can't be labeled in the image for language reasons, but they need to be, since plain numbers aren't useful without the "per million residents".) @Ythlev: would you be amenable to this? Sdkb (talk) 05:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh, and I just noticed WereSpielChequers's comment above. Case in point. Sdkb (talk) 05:34, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't have the time to update the captions. Ythlev (talk) 06:27, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

@Ythlev: You'd only have to update the caption here once, if I understand correctly. If the issue is that the ranges are changing with each update, we could likely solve that with some coding that'd transclude; I'd be willing to help with that. Here's most of it; the only thing you need to do is correct the colors and then take out the caption from the map itself.

English: Confirmed COVID-19 cases by U.S. state or territory:

 

<235 cases per million inhabitants

 

235–940 cases per million inhabitants

 

941–2117 cases per million inhabitants

 

2118–3764 cases per million inhabitants

 

3765–5882 cases per million inhabitants

 

≥5883 cases per million inhabitants

- Sdkb (talk) 18:26, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

I am capable of generating the legend with script, but having to update the legend doubles the effort, and I am updating 18 maps already. Perhaps you can update the maps if you really want that. Ythlev (talk) 18:42, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't know how to do so. But it looks like there's some discussion below moving toward automating this, so I hope that may make things easier and allow for this. Sdkb (talk) 00:08, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Automating this map

@Ythlev: Would you have any objection to this map being automatically updated once per day with a script? It looks like right now it's being updated by hand about once every two or three days. Kaldari (talk) 15:25, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

How would that be done? Ythlev (talk) 15:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at the COVID-19 WikiProject on standardizing various aspects of maps

 You are invited to join the discussion at w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19#Best universal colors for maps and graphs?. Sdkb (talk) 21:44, 14 May 2020 (UTC)