Should I send my kids back to school?
To be honest, the main reason for me to send my kids back to school is to keep the household sane. Nevertheless, the decision should be informed by data. So here we go. I have downloaded the data from the UK government website and filtered the data by region. The UK lock down started 15th March when there were about 6 new cases per day. In the area I am at, the number of daily confirmed cases has come down below 6 per day for some time. I shall caveat that conservatively, we should check all the surrounding areas and wait for 0 cases for at least 2 weeks for all of them to be safe. I have schedule a job to update the graph every day to keep an eye on the number. For now and for my family, the risk is definitely worth taking. #data.table #R #backtoschool #covid19 #parenthood r-bloggers.com library(data.table) library(ggplot2) data_url <- "https://c19downloads.azureedge.net/downloads/csv/coronavirus-cases_latest.csv" raw_data <- fread(data_url, check.names = TRUE) merton_...