How many have been vaccinated so far?

How many have been vaccinated so far?

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Northernboy

12,642 posts

256 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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HappyMidget said:
It is actually a poor way of displaying the data, it looks like something I would try to do. It really needs separating out into different charts to make it easier to read. Background: I am a data engineer who can throw billions of rows of data around and make it properly queriable, I just can;t make a pretty report for st. See my daily graphs for examples of the piss poor graphs I make biggrin
I produce a summary of the bisiness up to the bank's board each month, something which has to capture the essence of the numbers that matter, and how they are changing, for quite a mixed audience. I think I'd be in line for some criticism if I included something like this. "What does 95% corrected mean?", "What's this about MDMA writen there?"

98elise

26,376 posts

160 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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Crumpet said:
Nimby said:
Apart from the card, jabs go on your NHS patient record which you can see online via PatientAccess or the NHS phone app (not the Test&Trace one).
Hmmm, it’s sort of for this reason I don’t want it. I don’t want it on a central record which insurance companies and the like can access but I’d like the cards that say I’ve had it. Maybe I’ll look into having it abroad.
Its your normal medical record so it shows everything you're being (or have been) treated for.

Mine shows my hypertension which actually does have an impact on insurance, but only because they ask me for that information. My insurance company don't have access to my medical records.

What's concerns you about Covid vaccination being in there?

jesusbuiltmycar

4,535 posts

253 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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Nimby said:
youngsyr said:
J210 said:
What ever happened to the novavax vaccine ?
All gone very quiet on that one, hasn't it?
My son is in the Valneva trial - first jab tomorrow.
My sister-in-laws parents were involved in the original trial - her mother got the pacebo (and has now had the AZ vaccine) her father had the real vaccine and will apparently be given a booster in the Autumn.

EddieSteadyGo

11,726 posts

202 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
It isn't an appalling graph - but it contains a lot of information which takes some time to digest.

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I don't agree. It uses acronms without explanation, doesn't explain all terms, and (as far as I can see) says nothing at all about the darker lines.
You should get onto Twitter and tell him. I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Hopefully others here can make use of it though.

HappyMidget

6,788 posts

114 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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EddieSteadyGo said:
Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
It isn't an appalling graph - but it contains a lot of information which takes some time to digest.

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I don't agree. It uses acronms without explanation, doesn't explain all terms, and (as far as I can see) says nothing at all about the darker lines.
You should get onto Twitter and tell him. I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Hopefully others here can make use of it though.
I might point some MS MVPs in PowerBI in his direction. Only have about 20 or 30 in my company. Including my boss who is the first ever person to be an external person to directly work on the PBI code base.

Nimby

4,572 posts

149 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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jesusbuiltmycar said:
Nimby said:
youngsyr said:
J210 said:
What ever happened to the novavax vaccine ?
All gone very quiet on that one, hasn't it?
My son is in the Valneva trial - first jab tomorrow.
My sister-in-laws parents were involved in the original trial - her mother got the pacebo (and has now had the AZ vaccine) her father had the real vaccine and will apparently be given a booster in the Autumn.
Son said he won't know for a year which one he gets - unless he needs a vaccine passport (he's military) and has to "unblind" which invalidates his trial data.

spikeyhead

17,225 posts

196 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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HappyMidget said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
It isn't an appalling graph - but it contains a lot of information which takes some time to digest.

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I don't agree. It uses acronms without explanation, doesn't explain all terms, and (as far as I can see) says nothing at all about the darker lines.
You should get onto Twitter and tell him. I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Hopefully others here can make use of it though.
I might point some MS MVPs in PowerBI in his direction. Only have about 20 or 30 in my company. Including my boss who is the first ever person to be an external person to directly work on the PBI code base.
Your TLA use is NVG

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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HappyMidget said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
It isn't an appalling graph - but it contains a lot of information which takes some time to digest.

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I don't agree. It uses acronms without explanation, doesn't explain all terms, and (as far as I can see) says nothing at all about the darker lines.
You should get onto Twitter and tell him. I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Hopefully others here can make use of it though.
I might point some MS MVPs in PowerBI in his direction. Only have about 20 or 30 in my company. Including my boss who is the first ever person to be an external person to directly work on the PBI code base.
Somewhere in the world this means something to someone. Maybe Twitter man can have a graph-off with Elysium?

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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Roman Rhodes said:
Somewhere in the world this means something to someone. Maybe Twitter man can have a graph-off with Elysium?
I believe it's IT Jive. He has just offered to take your mother to the shops in return for some bytes.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
Roman Rhodes said:
Somewhere in the world this means something to someone. Maybe Twitter man can have a graph-off with Elysium?
I believe it's IT Jive. He has just offered to take your mother to the shops in return for some bytes.
Excellent. She used to work on radios in the WAAF. They'll have much to talk about.

youngsyr

14,742 posts

191 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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EddieSteadyGo said:
Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
It isn't an appalling graph - but it contains a lot of information which takes some time to digest.

.
I don't agree. It uses acronms without explanation, doesn't explain all terms, and (as far as I can see) says nothing at all about the darker lines.
You should get onto Twitter and tell him. I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Hopefully others here can make use of it though.
FWIW, I agree it's not a great way of showing the data - and I write pretty numerical reports for a living.

The whole point of using a graph is to make trends and comparisons strikingly obvious. This fails to do that. It looks like the data should be split over 2 graphs, at least.

andy43

9,551 posts

253 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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98elise said:
Crumpet said:
Nimby said:
Apart from the card, jabs go on your NHS patient record which you can see online via PatientAccess or the NHS phone app (not the Test&Trace one).
Hmmm, it’s sort of for this reason I don’t want it. I don’t want it on a central record which insurance companies and the like can access but I’d like the cards that say I’ve had it. Maybe I’ll look into having it abroad.
Its your normal medical record so it shows everything you're being (or have been) treated for.

Mine shows my hypertension which actually does have an impact on insurance, but only because they ask me for that information. My insurance company don't have access to my medical records.

What's concerns you about Covid vaccination being in there?
One point - we've downloaded the NHS app recently and it gives you a message that says it'll be changing soon so older iphones (pre-iOS 10 or 12 IIRC - iphone 5C or thereabouts, can't remember exactly) will work now but won't in the future.
So if you're thinking of going off-grid so the vaxxers can't find you I'd recommend an upgrade first.
Remember to keep it wrapped it in foil or the vax vans will be able to track you.

Pistonpants

258 posts

86 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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jock mcsporran said:
Second Moderna jab today. So far just a light headache but otherwise fine. No real reaction to the first jab either other than a sore arm for a day.
What gap did you get between jabs? I got the Moderna on the first day it was available in England and the second jab is 12 weeks later in early July, so not sure how you managed to get the 2nd jab so soon - assuming you are in the UK?

I know they started a week earlier in Wales/Scotland but even so wouldn’t expect any 2nd Moderna jabs for a few months.

EddieSteadyGo

11,726 posts

202 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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youngsyr said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
It isn't an appalling graph - but it contains a lot of information which takes some time to digest.

.
I don't agree. It uses acronms without explanation, doesn't explain all terms, and (as far as I can see) says nothing at all about the darker lines.
You should get onto Twitter and tell him. I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Hopefully others here can make use of it though.
FWIW, I agree it's not a great way of showing the data - and I write pretty numerical reports for a living.

The whole point of using a graph is to make trends and comparisons strikingly obvious. This fails to do that. It looks like the data should be split over 2 graphs, at least.
It would be worth something IF you would post instead your own pretty numerical version of the same data, on a daily basis, consistently, each day of the vaccine rollout, including weekends and bank holidays.

The graph might not be pretty - but it is accurate. And it is also easy to understand. And it is updated each day. And you aren't paying for it.

Northernboy

12,642 posts

256 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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EddieSteadyGo said:
It would be worth something IF you would post instead your own pretty numerical version of the same data, on a daily basis, consistently, each day of the vaccine rollout, including weekends and bank holidays.

The graph might not be pretty - but it is accurate. And it is also easy to understand. And it is updated each day. And you aren't paying for it.
If numerate, educated people familiar with presenting data are saying that the graph is not well done, then rather than having a strop about it, do you not think it'd be better to take the comments on board?

It's awful.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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It's almost as if they said "you've got just 1 slide and you have to put all the information on it.".

Northernboy

12,642 posts

256 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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EddieSteadyGo said:
You should get onto Twitter and tell him. I'm sure he would appreciate your thoughtful and constructive feedback.

Hopefully others here can make use of it though.
No, I’m not going to take time out to teach everyone who can’t communicate very well how to do it better. It’s poor even for Twitter though.

EddieSteadyGo

11,726 posts

202 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
It would be worth something IF you would post instead your own pretty numerical version of the same data, on a daily basis, consistently, each day of the vaccine rollout, including weekends and bank holidays.

The graph might not be pretty - but it is accurate. And it is also easy to understand. And it is updated each day. And you aren't paying for it.
If numerate, educated people familiar with presenting data are saying that the graph is not well done, then rather than having a strop about it, do you not think it'd be better to take the comments on board?

It's awful.
Lol. It was a twitter link to a professional actuary who produces some *very* insightful covid data and who produces some useful vaccine progress graphs. I posted it because I thought others on this thread might find it useful.

If you don't find it useful - that's fine. From your original reply, you clearly didn't understand it and so I tried to provide you with some explanation. That's called trying to be helpful.

Northernboy

12,642 posts

256 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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EddieSteadyGo said:
Lol. It was a twitter link to a professional actuary who produces some *very* insightful covid data and who produces some useful vaccine progress graphs. I posted it because I thought others on this thread might find it useful.

If you don't find it useful - that's fine. From your original reply, you clearly didn't understand it and so I tried to provide you with some explanation. That's called trying to be helpful.
An actuary! Why didn’t you say? I feel so foolish now that I réalisé that that hot mess was put up be a retired actuary whose former job was presenting profits on photocopier profits in Swansea, whereas the most complex data I ever had to summarize was how I’d proved that the large hadron collider would be able to discriminate the Higgs boson from the background signal.

I’m clearly out of my league here, you’re obviously a proper expert.

EddieSteadyGo

11,726 posts

202 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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Northernboy said:
EddieSteadyGo said:
Lol. It was a twitter link to a professional actuary who produces some *very* insightful covid data and who produces some useful vaccine progress graphs. I posted it because I thought others on this thread might find it useful.

If you don't find it useful - that's fine. From your original reply, you clearly didn't understand it and so I tried to provide you with some explanation. That's called trying to be helpful.
An actuary! Why didn’t you say? I feel so foolish now that I réalisé that that hot mess was put up be a retired actuary whose former job was presenting profits on photocopier profits in Swansea, whereas the most complex data I ever had to summarize was how I’d proved that the large hadron collider would be able to discriminate the Higgs boson from the background signal.

I’m clearly out of my league here, you’re obviously a proper expert.
You are clogging up the thread trying to be argumentative. John posts some excellent stuff on covid. Maybe the graphs are not pretty - but many *genuine* experts on covid find the information useful. The related twitter handle is below, which has produced some excellent covid vaccine modelling e.g. predicting the effect on deaths, hospitalisation and cases of the vaccine rollout very accurately from right back in January.

https://twitter.com/COVID19actuary

You should try reading it some of the documents they have published - you might learn something smile