Data of COVID-19 Cases from the News

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The selected data is about COVID-19 cases in the US presented by the New York Times /interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html . The data shows COVID-19 new reported cases, cases by region, hotspot regions, state trends, county trends, national trends, and outbreak clusters. The type of data represented by the New York Times is discrete Data. It refers to information that can take certain values. The information is determined by counting. The data provided is a real example of discrete data because the values that describe the intensity of COVID-19 in the US are obtained by counting and recording the tests, positive cases, and the number of deaths. Despite the effort made by the media to obtain the values, the accuracy of the data r...