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Japan's COVID-19 reports - 140KBs of unadulterated incompetence

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    First problem here is that none of the really important tables here are actually text based tables - they are images. Images with no alt text

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    So, up next - do the rows integrate nicely? Fortunately - yes. Does the breakdown matter to the average joe? Not really. Unless you are a healthcare official, the details really don't matter - the average population only needs to know the summed numbers to be able to compare how bad the situation is with other countries, and how careful they should be when leaving their homes.

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    Now, after roughly two screens worth of a information summarized about the local situation, they move on to a static table breakdown of the global situation with no visualization. This section allocates a 53.47% of the vertical pixel real estate of the entire report. Sure, it's useful information - but not in a table which doesn't allow sorting with no plot.

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