Cumulative charts are misleading when not all data is available yet (early in the day)

[netzwerg]

First things first: Excellent work – keep it up!

Some of the charts are quite misleading, when – e.g. early in the day – many cantons have not yet published data.

Off the top of my head, I see two strategies:

(1) Make it very clear that the latest column/point is not representative (e.g. showing it semi-transparently or dashed, adding a comment like "3 out of 26 cantons" – whatever might help)

(2) When calculating totals, use the most recently available number, i.e. use data from the day before if no current number is available yet. This would at least not give the wrong impression that numbers are going down

[zdavatz]

This is a very good point. I will cross-reference this. zdavatz/covid19_ch#16

[markusb]

This is the same for other curves. It looks like for missing data the data of the day before is carried forward. For example VD has 2215 cases on the 25th, 2513 cases on the 26th, no data yet for the 27th, but the table shows 2513, carried forward from the 26th. The table should be empty instead.