COVID in Oneida County

02 May 2020

I wrote an article for the Utica College Center of Public Affairs and Election Research blog, “Why Oneida County briefly showed the most COVID-19 symptoms in Upstate NY”. Spoiler alert: it’s statistical noise from a small sample size.

Python code for the graphs is available on Gist.

Postscript, 2020-08-13: The spike in Oneida County did, indeed, turn out to be a blip. Another outlier that was nationally noticed was in Navajo County, Arizona; unfortunately, that turned out to be real.

2023-11-04: Spherical area coordinates, and a derived triangle center
2023-07-29: Homogeneous coordinates on the sphere with vectors
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2022-08-27: Edges in the image of the Schwarz triangle function
2022-07-20: Area-preserving swirling of the disk
2022-03-03: Some dubious ways to calculate conformal polyhedral projections
2021-10-02: A variation on the Chamberlin trimetric map projection
2021-08-31: Snyder's equal-area projection
2021-06-12: Perspective projections with vectors
2021-05-29: A (sort of) Euclidean triangle on a non-Euclidean surface

COVID in Oneida County

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