Lucas Rodés-Guirao

Hi @dstaermans, Thanks for your message. We explored this data and it is reporting incomplete data at the moment (no booster data). I have contacted the source at data.gov.lv a...

Hi @beansrowning, Thanks for your message. We now rely on the WHO COVID-19 Dashboard (see https://covid19.who.int/). You can read more about this in our post: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-jhu-who. Important notes: - The...

Hi @MikhailKuklin, This file is updated on a daily basis. However, the metrics concerning confirmed cases and deaths are only updated whenever the WHO updates their dataset. The WHO has...

@MikhailKuklin Yes! If of interest, we have this dataset with only confirmed cases/deaths: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/blob/master/public/data/cases_deaths/full_data.csv. Not all metrics are present there and some names might differ from the primary dataset (https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data/owid-covid-data.csv).

Hi @jeremyg7, Thanks for your message. We publish WHO's data without any alterations, so it looks like an issue for which the WHO will be better positioned to comment. I...

Hi @czka, Thanks for reporting! I just checked the source, and this seems to come from them. You can see this in their chars in the following links (scroll down...

Hi @czka, Thanks for your thoughts and insights. Before the source switch, we ran several tests comparing both sources to ensure no significant differences. Back then, we did not observe...

Hi @czka, Thanks for your message. We reported the issues to the WHO, but we did not get any response. We are reporting values for confirmed deaths and cases as...

Hi @czka, This is what the WHO replied: > The spikes observed are due to changes in either case definitions of COVID-19 deaths or the exclusion of probable deaths by...

Hi, and sorry for my belated response! The [whatstk](https://whatstk.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) library currently provides an easy interface to map a text file to a data frame. It is straightforward to use and...