Tired of being told about COVID-19 Direction Changes Every 2nd Day?

Forget Daily Statistics and follow the Right KPI!

Meinhard Ploner
Towards Data Science
4 min readApr 22, 2020

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Photo by Sophie Dale on Unsplash

We [and the media!] attach too much importance to the Daily Numbers.
For most countries, the case statistics follow a weekly pattern, with the bottom during the weekend.

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