# Plotting daily death using Makie
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question, plotting, makie
**Created:** [November 29, 2023, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895 "2023-11-29T10:36:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Chao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chao)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895/1 "2023-11-29T10:36:06Z")
Hello, I am plotting the daily new death per day. It should be a line, but it looks strange.
Here are my codes:
```julia
# read the data
covid_death = filter(row -> row.location == "Germany" && row.date >= Date(2020, 6, 1) && row.date <= Date(2021, 5, 31),
CSV.read("..../owid-covid-data_casedeathoxfordindex.csv", DataFrame)) # 365×67 DataFrame
# plot the figure with grey background
f = Figure(backgroundcolor = RGBf(0.98, 0.98, 0.98), size = (1000, 900))
# Setting up GridLayouts
ga = f[1, 1] = GridLayout()
gb = f[2, 1] = GridLayout()
gc = f[3, 1] = GridLayout()
# Panel A
ax = Axis(ga[1,1])
days = length(covid_death.date)
lines!(ax, 1:days, covid_death.new_deaths_per_million,
ylabel = "new_deaths_per_million")
ax.xticks = (1:30:days, string.(covid_death.date)[1:30:days])
f
```
Thank you.
Solved. Because of this.
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### Author:  [@SteffenPL](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/SteffenPL)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 10:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895/2 "2023-11-29T10:40:03Z")
Seems like the data peaks on a particular weekday. You could smoothen the data so see a trend, e.g. using moving averages. Are you sure that the plot is wrong, or could it be the data itself looking like this?
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### Author:  [@Chao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chao)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 10:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895/3 "2023-11-29T10:52:20Z")
Thank you. I know where I am wrong.
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895/4 "2023-11-29T12:17:24Z")
If I remember right, certainly in the UK, the data for Covid peaked on certain days due to reporting - the reporting was done sometimes on a Monday after a weekend so the data got skewed to Mondays.
I could be wrong
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### Author:  [@Chao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Chao)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895/6 "2023-11-29T12:56:17Z")
Yes, I checked the data. The number of deaths per million for Germany was also provided once a week. In the dataset, when there was no result, it came to 0.0. That is why the line goes up and down.
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-daily-death-using-makie/106895/7 "2023-11-29T13:09:48Z")
@chao you should tune into the thread on Missing values
[Why are missing values not ignored by default? - Internals & Design - Julia Programming Language (julialang.org)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756)