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There is a bug in the current data pull resulting in a cases count of 0 around Sep 1.

http://grantbrown.github.io/libspatialSEIR/doc/tutorials/Ebola2014/Ebola2014.html

^ This has some really in depth context, that claims to be getting updated frequently. Could link to it "for the scientific crowd".

I know ebolastats.com is live. With a small bit of cleanup this can be promoted and actually be useful to people.

respectful, scientific, dignified, stately, believable...

Drawing a line masks the data. Here are the raw points:

You can see that there are often stretches of ~5 days, where counts of cumulative cases do not change. This is not from a lack of real cases, it's just due to reporting increments. I think it would be more accurate to show points (and a line connecting them) only for days in which there is an increase in count. This would be the first point in these stretches.

would show how many people in each country etc

Guys,

There are at least two upcoming data jams, or hackathons, on this issue. People might be interested in forking this repo. Maybe you want to get on the twitters and increase your exposure (sorry for the pun).

http://www.meetup.com/Africa-Open-Data/events/211518232/
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hack-ebola-at-nyu

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