09-22-2020, 04:39 PM
(09-22-2020, 03:07 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(09-22-2020, 12:59 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Do you have any idea why Waterloo region is consistently missreporting numbers? I mean, the numbers today will almost certainly be updated tomorrow...
This makes no sense though, unless they are literally incapable of performing addition and they are adding it up wrong every day, the numbers that come today should be counted for today, not yesterday.
Apparently their daily report is based on data from 5:30 PM the previous day, but recently they have often been getting additional cases reported later than that. I assume some human is collating the numbers at 5:30 PM, before going home, otherwise it should be easy to use the numbers as of midnight.
So, leaving aside the fact that it is a manual process (it shouldn't be), they should either define "day" to be 5:30 PM -> 5:30 PM the next day, OR collect the numbers at 9 AM the next morning for the previous day.
The current process is pessimal, creating the most confusion for the least benefit.
Who do I tweet that at?
