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The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data
In data science, there’s long been an acknowledgment of the way data can flatten and dehumanize the people they represent. This limitation becomes most obvious when considering the pure inability of such numbers and figures to truly capture the reality of lives lost in this pandemic.
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2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7296309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100066 |
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| author | Raji, Inioluwa Deborah |
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| description | In data science, there’s long been an acknowledgment of the way data can flatten and dehumanize the people they represent. This limitation becomes most obvious when considering the pure inability of such numbers and figures to truly capture the reality of lives lost in this pandemic. |
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| spelling | pubmed-72963092020-06-16 The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data Raji, Inioluwa Deborah Patterns (N Y) Opinion In data science, there’s long been an acknowledgment of the way data can flatten and dehumanize the people they represent. This limitation becomes most obvious when considering the pure inability of such numbers and figures to truly capture the reality of lives lost in this pandemic. Elsevier 2020-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7296309/ /pubmed/32835309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100066 Text en © 2020 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| spellingShingle | Opinion Raji, Inioluwa Deborah The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data |
| title | The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data |
| title_full | The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data |
| title_fullStr | The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data |
| title_short | The Discomfort of Death Counts: Mourning through the Distorted Lens of Reported COVID-19 Death Data |
| title_sort | discomfort of death counts: mourning through the distorted lens of reported covid-19 death data |
| topic | Opinion |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7296309/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100066 |
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