What COVID-19 Data Resources Are Best for Pandemic Updates
Current pandemic data resources can teach data science professionals how to best understand data associated with a societal issue
With the pandemic having killed 670,000 Americans to date, gathering reliable data has become imperative to developing effective policies and responses. With that in mind, I thought I would start a round-up of sources addressing the current state of data available.
1. John Hopkins University
John Hopkins University has lead the charge in tracking the impact from COVID-19 cases, offering data that logs the daily infection rate across the United States and other case metrics.
John Hopkins runs a GitHub repository — you can click here to connect to it. The repository is maintained by Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE)
The data set includes a complete list of all sources ever used. Some sources listed here (e.g. ECDC, US CDC, BNO News) are not currently relied upon as a source of data.
To use this data in a publication, the organization requests that its Lancet article is cited. The article can be found here.
