I look at the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes for 2021, which feature an ever-expanding list of bad things that can happen to you. I share some “PG” and “PG-13” rated conditions, along with a few that I found highly notable.
Author Archives: William Gerhardt
Graphical Analysis: The June 2020 U.S. Industry Employment Highlights
The mostly recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that in May and June of this year the U.S. Economy may have recovered 36% of the jobs lost during in the first wave of COVID-19 shutdowns. Now, as public spaces are shutting down for a second time, I look at what happened last month in colorful and original graphs.
Explained: The Data Engineering techniques used in my “Spring Job Losses” post
If you want to know how I crunched the numbers and generated the original graphs in my last graph-loaded blog post, here is an overview of my methods.
Data Analysis: A Graphical Tour of the Preliminary COVID-19 Spring Job Losses
On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their first preliminary estimates for May 2020 industry-specific employment. The numbers provide a preliminary snapshot of what happened to the U.S. job market in the second full month of the United States COVID-19 epidemic. I share some highlights with original graphs and charts.
News Analysis: China’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Likely Fiction
China has not been honest with their data in the past. Now is probably not the exception.
Analysis: Will the U.S. Government accurately report COVID-19 infections?
I survey the last week of coronavirus developments (before 2/29/2020), and offer reasons to be cautiously concerned about the accuracy of U.S. Government reporting on COVID-19 in the coming weeks and months.
An Evening of Fun, Testing Peltarion’s “Author Style Predictor” AI
To kick off the New Year I tried out a whimsical experiment: “stress testing” an online web application which claims to predict what famous historic author you write like. The results may surprise you…