I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website.
I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable.
Also, the line at the end is a simple suggestion that any government is trying to say to the population to avoid overcrowding of hospitals. But I will edit the phrase to be lighter and less 'instructive'.
> I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website. I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable.
No, I know enough people that don't. Look into the low educated part of your family (if you have that part). In my family the low educated people will believe anything that says Stanford or Harvard without any source other than just typing it. Heck, they would almost see this comment as reputable.
In your visualization, the data for The Netherlands is wrong by a few days. It's not 804, it's 1135. I remember it to be 950+ yesterday. My source is the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [1]. Apparently your source is John Hopkins? I'm not entirely sure, I quickly skimmed it. But I don't want old information on HN.
It has a nice design though. But because of its exponential nature and my knowledge of humans being terrible on it, I'm on edge. I don't want misinformation or stale data.
I think my experience was similar to yours. The reason I made it was to make the presentation of interesting data more accessible. But the lesson I took from it is that people put data to all kinds of uses, including those I didn't think about.
I was really surprised by that email, but it was enough to make me understand.
If you linked to your sources, show prominently the last time the data was updated, don't give any advice and clearly state that it's just for interest only, I think this would be less risky.
But whatever you do, there will be someone, somewhere, using your page for a reason you didn't expect.
Get rid of it entirely, you have no way of words, you have no writing skills. Does one figure out one has symptoms at home? I am to make a call and I have to do it with a phone?
Clearly state you are a programmer and why you've made the page. Then it is cool. Nice visuals... WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
I just fixed it, there was a problem with the map.
Anyway, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic. I will try to increase the number of updates :)
I know why, but with full-width graphs that take up most of the screen, the scrolling issue is a real problem. As none of the graphs have content that needs to scroll within their viewport, you need to set the height/width/overflow/display to a combination that doesn’t cause this.
