I recently used Al’s Garden Center‘s online shopping site. I like it! While having three ideas for improving it.
Here is my third presentation in the coronavirus series, where I focus on and summarize six aspects of the situation:
Leading to my conclusion:
A friend mentioned a trip and wanting to talk others into going on it. My response: you need a website! I quickly had a new project on my do-list.
Thought I’d share it: casapiellas.wordpress.com. Getting various people’s feedback as it was build was good project management practice along with a short and sweet marketing plan.
We see many great articles about specific topics about the coronavirus situation. I was having trouble fitting all the details together to form an overview of the situation I could understand. So I researched, and then put together this video.
Hopefully, you will find the video helpful. I had a lot of fun making it!
In late March there was a lot of talk about will we open the country on Easter? How many people will have the virus then?
I researched and estimated how many people in Oregon would test positive for coronavirus and how many would die by Easter. Healthcare stats are a bit different than modeling future sales and capacity planning! (See my blog on 3/26 for the initial information.) As Easter was yesterday, I revisited my projections against actual.
NET:
… is making memes. It’s fun to see them on social media. I find it even better to bring to fruition the ideas that spring up in my mind. Here are several recent ones.
Hint: Easy to do in PowerPoint, Canva.com, and Photoshop.
As was reported this morning by CNN – another 6.648M Americans are newly unemployed. My mind quickly went to, “What is the updated unemployment percentage?” As the newscast did not mention this number.
Assumptions in the approximation:
As I tried to extend my coronavirus understanding and modeling – I realized a key component to future modeling was missing!
Thankfully, there are many people working on this topic including the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released “Coronavirus Response; A Road Map to Reopening” on 3/28/2020. People who know way more than myself discuss their ideas in a serious way.
Four phase plan – which will take considerable time with focus on saving the most lives.
Phase I: Slow the Spread – what we are doing, with a lot more testing
Phase II: State-by-State Reopening – with massive testing and contact tracing
Phase III: Establish Immune Protection and Lift Physical Distancing
Phase IV: Rebuild Our Readiness for the Next Pandemic
In the news stories yesterday – we were all shocked at the 3.283M Americans newly unemployed. My mind quickly went to, “What is the updated unemployment percentage?” As the newscasts did not mention this number.
The federal government doesn’t calculate it weekly, just monthly.
So I approximated it at 5.5%.
Assumptions in the approximation:
Sources:
https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf (yellow highlighted number)
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm (blue highlighted numbers)
There is a lot of information flying around about Coronavirus, so I decided to dig into the data stories. Net:
YouTube video: Coronavirus Review & Update
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