The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data
The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data
In data science, there's long been an acknowledgment of the way data can flatten and dehumanize the people they represent. This limitation becomes most obvious when considering the pure inability of such numbers and figures to truly capture the reality of lives lost in this pandemic. In data science, there's …