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Music & audio lover, also educated in finance & statistics. Currency trader, quant approach. Innate skepticism towards authority. Question everything.
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Oct 25, 2020 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
We can't understand the present if we don't understand the past.

This thread will show you the history of death and disease outbreaks in Sweden. Source data was all retrieved from Statistics Sweden. Here are monthly DPM since 1851:
(repost - caption typo fixed + improvements) Image These are the values I used for 2020. I've tried to be conservative - where there's a chance deaths might be understated, I've methodically adjusted them upwards. Also - I started this project over a month ago, so newer data is now available. These are still good though. Image
Oct 7, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
We can't understand the present if we don't understand the past.

In this thread, you'll see what the past 120 years looked like for the USA. The source data is all available on the CDC website, though it was a real pain to aggregate. This chart shows monthly DPM since 1900: Image These are the values I used for 2020. They were implied from weekly counts retrieved on Oct 3, so the vast majority of deaths should be registered for Jan-Aug. Future adjustments shouldn't impact the overall picture. Image