Data about the COVID-19 pandemic is being aggregated and prepped in a rapid clip as tech vendors are creating a stack of analysis tools for amateur epidemiologists as well as data science wonks.
Here's the upshot: This novel coronavirus outbreak may be the most visualized ever.
The first data analysis dashboard and aggregation tool appeared shortly after the COVID-19 outbreak in China. The dashboard, courtesy of Johns Hopkins University, has become a go-to data source since it visualizes and aggregates data from WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC, DXY, 1point3acres, Worldometers.info, BNO, state and national government health departments, and local media reports.
Johns Hopkins also put the data on GitHub for use. Since the launch of that dashboard January 23, COVID-19 has become arguably the most visualized pandemic data set. While the sets were available from a variety of sources, the latest efforts revolve around providing clean data for analysis.
A tour of various efforts.
ESO, a data software company that focuses on EMS, fire and hospital first responders to track response data across the US. The data set collects pre-hospital to hospital response and is collected from 2,600 EMS agencies across the US but excluding California.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has a data set that looks at hospital bed use and need for intensive care beds and ventilators due to COVID-19.
C3.ai has created a unified data lake of all publicly available COVID-19 data sets. The data set will be available April 13 and updated again on May 15 with more data sets.
Other data sets that will be aggregated into the C3 data lake: