The Economist's excess deaths model

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  The Economist's model to estimate excess deaths to the covid-19 pandemic

  

So, I'm not an R guy, but I pawed through some of the code. I get what you're saying, there's an environment, it needs to be just so, or it won't work. that's fine. And yeah, it does feel a lot like SQL.

I would point out this guy - https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-globa...

that sort of has the look of something that took a pass or two to get right. And I think, would be nice to have a test case (sample call).

Again, not a hill I'm going to die on.

Overall, I don't think we have a big difference of opinion, yeah, it looks like gluing together libraries - as a non, native R speaker, I think I can make sense of the project, it's cool they put it out there, and I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with what they've got.

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So, I'm not an R guy, but I pawed through some of the code. I get what you're saying, there's an environment, it needs to be just so, or it won't work. that's fine. And yeah, it does feel a lot like SQL.

I would point out this guy - https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-globa...

that sort of has the look of something that took a pass or two to get right. And I think, would be nice to have a test case (sample call).

Again, not a hill I'm going to die on.

Overall, I don't think we have a big difference of opinion, yeah, it looks like gluing together libraries - as a non, native R speaker, I think I can make sense of the project, it's cool they put it out there, and I don't think there's anything _wrong_ with what they've got.

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