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gboesel

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My email address is "boesel" at the google email service.
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gboesel··on U.S. sells one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album forfeited by Martin Shkreli
It's interesting that they haven't released who it was sold to, or how much they paid. Shkreli bought it for a reported $2 million at auction in 2015.
gboesel··on Show HN: A Covid-19 case and testing tracker by state
Virginia's data has been fixed now.

I was also able to hack together a mobile version of the site this weekend, so you might check that out too, although the desktop version makes it easier to compare states.

gboesel··on Show HN: Mobile Version – Tracking Covid-19 Cases and Testing by State
I quickly hacked a website together last weekend based on the COVID Tracking Project[1] data because I wanted to see how much COVID testing was being done at the state level.

I spent this weekend creating a mobile version of the site which came out pretty well I think. But if you want to see a LOT of data at once, the desktop version is still the way to go.

[1] https://covidtracking.com/

gboesel··on Show HN: A Covid-19 case and testing tracker by state
If you read the introductory information at the top of the site (pasted below), I totally agree with that the amount of testing is VERY important.

It's why I show the daily testing numbers and also calculate the RATE of testing for each state, so there's at least a reference for how states are doing comparatively.

---- Why is having accurate stats on the number of tests so important?

By definition, a confirmed case is one confirmed by a positive test for COVID-19. If your state isn't doing much testing, then you won't have many confirmed cases. However, there could still be a high number of people with coronavirus in your state, they just haven't been counted yet.

gboesel··on Show HN: A Covid-19 case and testing tracker by state
I've got a bunch of improvements that I want to make on the site (mobile version coming soon!) and once it's looking good, I might try to tackle some drilled down hyper-local data.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've added it to the list.

gboesel··on Show HN: A Covid-19 case and testing tracker by state
Yeah, I've seen that Virginia's numbers are strange. I'm just using the data from the Covid Tracking Project[1], and they seem to be scrubbing the data pretty well, but for some reason they haven't gotten Virginia's right.

I'm trying to not source the data myself, since they seem to have a good methodology that they generally follow. I'll ping them and see if that have an explanation.

Another issue is that I need the historical daily data for Virginia since the site is showing the time series, so I will have to find that specific information too.

Thanks for checking out the site, and stay tuned for some improvements to it.

[1] https://covidtracking.com/

gboesel··on The Covid Tracking Project
I quickly hacked a website together last weekend based on the COVID Tracking Project data because I wanted to see how much testing was being done and where. It's the only source that I found that has testing information, which at this point is very important I think.

The site's not great on mobile, but I'll be working on that this weekend.

http://VirusTracking.net

gboesel··on Show HN: A Covid-19 case and testing tracker by state
...and I put the wrong URL in the submission. The correct URL is http://VirusTracking.net

If a moderator could change the URL that would be great.

gboesel··on Show HN: A Covid-19 case and testing tracker by state
I quickly hacked a website together last weekend based on the COVID Tracking Project data because I wanted to see how much testing was being done and where.

I think that it's pretty interesting to sort by the columns and browse the data.

The site's not great on mobile, but I'll be working on that this weekend.

http://VirusTracking.net

gboesel··on The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
I quickly hacked a website together this weekend based on the COVID Tracking Project data because I wanted to see how much testing was being done and where.

I think that it's pretty interesting to sort by the columns and browse the data.

The site's not great on mobile, but I'm working on that this weekend...

http://VirusTracking.net