Artist Zach Weinersmith teams up with FiveThirtyEight to break down and explain the challenges in building accurate models for the pandemic from differing assumptions, data collection, and just a general lack of information.
Interesting quote from the cartoon: “Every variable is dependent on a number of possible choices and gaps in knowledge.”
Click on the images for the full cartoon.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-comic-strip-tour-of-the-wild-world-of-pandemic-modeling/
Reminds me of a funny tweet I saw, “Using the right denominator is 50% of data science.”
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