Covid Data With Zipf’s Law

How should we look at covid data? Use Zipf’s law. Plot the log of the counts by country vs the rank order. Remarkably, most of the plot will (usually) be straight. You can judge how extreme the top and bottom are by comparison with the line. USA is the worst in the...

Cost of Living World Data

Numbeo is kind enough to report their Cost of Living Index for countries of the world so we can take a look. Copy and paste into DataDesk. The column heads will need tweaking: start your copy with the data. Then when you paste the data into DD use the Prompt for Each...