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Would be nice to also see these statistics on a logarithmic plot - the purely selfish concern in the Western world is whether the epidemic is still in unchecked exponential growth, or if the growth rate is slowing.

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It's getting the stats from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Af... There's a log plot on that page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Evolution_of_the_2014_Ebol...

Here's another visualisation I put together, based on the same data collected on Wikipedia. It tries to mix a narrative with the growing number of cases/deaths.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-31/ebola-timeline-deadlie...

Nice. I placed a link to New: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415886

Hans Rosling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVZNGGxdxJQ) had the spread at 1.7 per infection at the 29th, last I heard it was 2, but that may be a rounding of the previous number.

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