🔍 WANTED: We are looking for data and data curators

[ivan-aksamentov]

Currently we are looking for case counts data and other statistical information from different countries as well as for people who can maintain this data (add, curate, update).

The entire process should be automated as much as possible. The README in the directory covid19_scenarios/data contains some information on how to get started:

https://github.com/neherlab/covid19_scenarios/data

It also contains the preprocessed data ready for the consumption by the build system of the app.

If you think you may know where to find the relevant data for a country, please let us know either in this thread, or open an issue. If you are ready to contribute, feel free to open a pull request.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions or if you need something to get started!

cc @nnoll @rneher

[ivan-aksamentov]

One way might be to crowdsource the search for data.

There are many COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2-related projects on the web. Some of them may contain data, APIs or just interesting ideas that can help us to make our application better.

Here are some examples:

• https://github.com/search?q=covid+OR+covid-19+OR+coronavirus+OR+ncov+OR+SARS-CoV-2
• https://github.com/soroushchehresa/awesome-coronavirus
• http://open-source-covid-19.weileizeng.com/

[noleti]

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide seems like a good data source? Example data: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-geographic-disbtribution-worldwide-2020-03-20.xlsx Data seems to be global and well structured. It only counts cases and deaths, though (no hospitalized, ICU, recovered)

[fazouane-marouane]

Would this be enough ? It’s data that’s refreshed daily at 9am EST https://www.tableau.com/covid-19-coronavirus-data-resources

csv
google sheets

[nonotest]

https://coronadatascraper.com/ there's a fair bit of data available there as well

[mserranom]

For Spain, this is a good data source, containing national and regional cases, deaths, ICU and recovered, updated on a daily basis: https://github.com/datadista/datasets/tree/master/COVID%2019

[noleti]

I have a finished pull request for the ECDC dataset pending now, replacing the WHO data and parser.

[noleti]

https://coronadatascraper.com/ there's a fair bit of data available there as well

There is an amazing amount of data on that API, but I guess it is not an official source. Should be easy to write a parser for, if required.

[nonotest]

Good point!

I have checked a few of their scrappers, they all seem to be directed at government pages eg https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-current-situation-and-case-numbers for Australia
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html for Canada and so on.
or github repos that are official sources like https://github.com/opencovid19-fr/data for France

If we were to go this road it shouldn't take too long to vet each source I guess.

[mserranom]

Spain's data: neherlab/covid19_scenarios_data#11

[camjc]

Hey all,

Have been working on https://coronadatascraper.com/ aka https://github.com/lazd/coronadatascraper in my own time, and also am a Sanity user professionally+personally.

We've been building scrapers over there only from official sources. No news, no aggregates, just governments directly (yes this is a pain since many governments like to have free-text press releases, sometimes with useful numbers written out like thirty-five).

If there are any sources on there that aren't primary sources (government depts), please raise an issue on that github and we'll work to sort it out.

There's a slack for that project too if anyone wants to jump on and chat with us that are working on it.