Chapter 5 Coronavirus Data Analysis & Predictions:
The ‘coronavirus’ dataset provides a snapshot of the daily confirmed, recovered, and death cases of the Coronavirus (the 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19) by geographic location (i.e., country/province). The raw dataset are being fetched from GitHub repository created by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CCSE) for analysis and predictions. On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the outbreak of “pneumonia of unknown cause” detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The virus causing the outbreak was determined from gene sequencing to be a novel coronavirus, a betacoronavirus, related to the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome virus (MERS-CoV) and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus (SARSCoV). The mortality, transmissibility and effect on human immune system of 2019-nCoV are still unknown, and are not similar to MERS-CoV and SARSCoV coronaviruses.
Considering the public health emergency, IRays Teknology Ltd. developed and launched an interactive web-based dashboard to visualize and track the reported cases in real-time and made it available to public sometime during February-March, 2020. (https://rpubs.com/irays/652145
COVID-19 dataset has the following fields:
The data is located on a server of the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU/CSSE).
date- The date of the summaryProvince.State- The province or state, when applicableCountry.Region- The country or region nameLat- Latitude pointLong- Longitude pointcases- the number of daily cases (corresponding to the case type)type- the type of case (i.e., confirmed, death, and recovered)
Data Sources:
The raw data pulled and arranged by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CCSE) from the following resources:
- World Health Organization (WHO): https://www.who.int/
- DXY.cn. Pneumonia. 2020. http://3g.dxy.cn/newh5/view/pneumonia.
- BNO News: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
- National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC): http:://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqtb/list_gzbd.shtml
- China CDC (CCDC): http:://weekly.chinacdc.cn/news/TrackingtheEpidemic.htm
- Hong Kong Department of Health: https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/features/102465.html
- Macau Government: https://www.ssm.gov.mo/portal/
- Taiwan CDC: https://sites.google.com/cdc.gov.tw/2019ncov/taiwan?authuser=0
- US CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
- Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus.html
- Australia Government Department of Health: https://www.health.gov.au/news/coronavirus-update-at-a-glance
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases