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Explaining the FT's Coronavirus trajectory tracker

Geoff Riley

30th March 2020

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This is a really well explained and important video looking at how the Financial Times is tracking the coronavirus spread by country and sub-region / city.

The FT's senior data-visualisation journalist John Burn-Murdoch is performing a hugely important public service with his data charts. It must take an incredibly large amount of work to maintain this, making subtle and significant adjustments based on feedback from other data scientists.

Explaining the FT's Coronavirus trajectory tracker
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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