Adding new Sources

[joseph-palmer]

This list of sources at: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#news could be a good place to start adding more countries.

If you do add a country, please edit this post with the country name, your github username, pr number and check it once completed and merged in.

Sources

• Covid19 Data Hub (@joseph-palmer Add covid19 data hub wrapper #338)
• JRC (@joseph-palmer Add jrc data #355)
• Netherlands (@joseph-palmer Add netherlands data #358)
• Switzerland (@RichardMN Add Switzerland data #365)

[RichardMN]

I've browsed through that list and gone down one or two of the rabbit-holes. For many countries the sources referred to are twitter or facebook pages. For some it is a reference to a government statement, typically on a government website. For a few, it is a link to a dashboard of some form which provides historical data but does not appear to offer open data access for the underlying information. (I should start collecting a palette of implementations of the ESRI dashboard.)

I note there is an interest to add more African sources but I've not found accessible datasets yet. I also haven't gone diving into the new global data sets which provide regional data so I don't know where the perceived gaps are.

So as a request, if anyone sees a clearly-open and likely-accessible dataset which they think it would be useful to have, perhaps tag it (and me) here.

Angola is using flourish to make nice graphs on a province-by-province basis. Ghana is using ESRI. Ukraine is using Power BI and there appears to be geographic distribution and historical data but not necessarily historical data on geographic distribution.