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Xkcd data dredging
Xkcd data dredging








The COVID-19 pandemic has had a large impact on the entire world and one way this can be seen is through strange stats resulting from the effects of the pandemic, at least in 20, the years marked with footnote in the data table. Sometimes a symbol such as an asterisk (*) or a dagger (†, also called an obelus or obelisk) is used to denote an unusual entry in a table to be explained in a footnote with a matching symbol. The only discernible differences across the eight years are that two years have footnotes as in 2020* and 2021 †, whereas the other six years have not. It shows a future data table with one entry for each year from 2017 to 2024, so this table is made at least three years after publication of the comic (presuming it does not depict some form of advanced estimation of trends). This comic is another entry in a series of comics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Title text: I'm hoping 2022 is relatively normal because I don't know what symbol comes after the asterisk and the dagger.










Xkcd data dredging