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Open MatMoore opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

I just came across this list of covid-19 datasets: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/data

There are a couple of others related to the John Hopkins dataset we're using that have cleaned the data in various ways. Maybe we can incorporate some of this work into the API?

https://github.com/datasets/covid-19 (python) https://github.com/jmcastagnetto/covid-19-data-cleanup (R)

MatMoore avatar Mar 11 '20 15:03 MatMoore

https://github.com/simonw/covid-19-datasette also uses the Johns Hopkins dataset. It seems to do a lot of the work of auto-updating the data hourly. I'm not sure how reshapable the data from it is - datasette may provide that functionality. We might be able to even wrap it for covid-api to save some coding effort 🙂

As a use case I thought it would just be a matter of forking a cool visualization like https://observablehq.com/@fil/ncov2019-data and changing the data source to https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid/daily_reports.csv, but it seems like some reshaping is needed. (I know this example takes CSV rather than consuming REST API data...just trying to come up with a good use case)

audreyfeldroy avatar Mar 11 '20 17:03 audreyfeldroy

More potentially useful projects here: https://weileizeng.github.io/Open-Source-COVID-19/world

audreyfeldroy avatar Mar 11 '20 17:03 audreyfeldroy

Actually I found another API for this data here as well: https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api. I'm not sure if it covers the same use cases we have in mind for this one?

MatMoore avatar Mar 13 '20 09:03 MatMoore

I apologise for being slow to reply in these days. I haven't abandoned the project or anything, but I struggle to find spare time after work. Let's hope for the weekend 🤞

andreagrandi avatar Mar 13 '20 10:03 andreagrandi