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Data Set (List of 50 states and # of COVID Cases- per 100,000)

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Data Set (List of 50 states and # of COVID Cases- per 100,000)

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1.New Jersey- 183

2.New York- 172

3.Massachusetts- 142

4.Connecticut- 128

5.Lousiana- 124

6.Rhode Island- 110

7.Mississippi- 108

8.Arizona- 91

9.Illinois - 80

10.Florida- 76

11.Michigan- 75

12.Georgia- 74

13.South Carolina- 73

14.Deleware- 72

15.Maryland- 69

16.Pennsylvania- 67

17.Texas- 67

18.Indiana- 61

19.Alabama- 60

20.Nevada- 58

21.Arkansas- 58

22.North Dakota- 56

23.Iowa- 55

24.New Mexico- 51

25.California- 45

26.Tennessee- 44

27.Ohio- 44

28.Missouri- 43

29.Minnesota- 43

30.Virginia- 41

31.Colorado- 41

32.North Carolina- 38

33.South Carolina- 38

34.New Hampshire- 38

35.Idaho- 34

36.Kentucky- 31

37.Oklahoma- 31

38.Kansas- 31

39.Washington- 31

40.Nebraska- 30

41.Wisconsin- 30

42.Montana- 29

43.West Virginia- 26

44.Utah- 24

45.Oregon- 23

46.Hawaii- 17

47.Maine- 15

48.Wyoming- 14

49.Vermont- 9

50.Alaska- 9

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Mean- 58.18
Median- 44.5
Mode- 31
Midrange- 192
Range- 174
Standard Deviation- 39.31022

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Since we are in the middle of a nation wide pandemic, I thought that it would be interesting to compare the number of Covid cases from all 50 states in the U.S. from when this pandemic started until October 19, 2020. There are many things that I expected when I first came up with this topic idea. I expected most of the states to have around the same number of cases. I did expect for there to be a couple of outliers because some states are smaller than other states; however, I was surprised with what the data showed. When looking at the data, you can see that each individual state had a dramatically different number of cases from the other states. For this data, the minimum number of cases was 9,000 as where the maximum number of cases was 183,000. This really surprised me because I thought the range would be closer together.

I think the graph that best illustrates the data is the line graph because you can easily see which state you are wanting to look at as well as how many cases that state had. On the other charts, the states were grouped together by 10 states at a time. Having each individual state on the line graph allows you to better understand the information that you are given. For example, if I am wanting to see how many cases state number 24 had, I can easily see that they had around 50,000 cases in their state.

The data for this project is very spread out. I know this because I can look at the line graph and see that when we start the graph we are at the very top, but when we end the graph we are at the very bottom. This means that the data is not clustered together, and that it is very spread out. In addition, I can look at my range and see that it is 174. This means that the highest number is 174 numbers away from the bottom number.

Each of the above graphs show something different. The two that are the most similar are the histogram and the pie chart because they group every 10 states together into one category. This allows us to get a better picture of which group of states have the highest number of cases. On the other hand, we have the line graph. This accurately shows you how many cases each state had. You can better judge the mean, median, mode, and range of the data by looking at the line graph. You cannot judge each individual state on the histogram and pie chart because those states are grouped together.