Selected Coronavirus Data Visualizations
Updated Thursday, April 9 06:45 EDT
Data from WHO, Worldometers, CovidTracking.com, OurWorldInData.org and datausa.io
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US Cities
US Graphs
World Graphs
Data via WHO at bit.ly/who-covid19-dash and various sources, as WHO site is sometimes down.
COVID-19 CASES/day for 6 Regions at Same Scale
Why these graphs?
I’ve been relying on the WHO data at their very good dashboard (short link bit.ly/who-covid19-dash. Unfortunately, while that dashboard allows you to click on a country name to see the “case by date” graph, it doesn’t allow you to say “show me everything except China”.
As I’ve been explaining for a couple of weeks now, generally the available coronavirus visualizations are pretty bad, and the flashy maps in particular (not to mention the missing-in-action visualizations from CDC, and snapshot maps from NY Times) don’t allow you to see a forest-not-trees view of what’s going on.
Wanting to get a sense how things are proceeding outside China as a whole, I’ve come up with these graphs, and will update them daily (until WHO adds this ability to their dashboard — which I’d much prefer). All of them give a sense of the pace and scale of the outbreak progression that I have not been able to find elsewhere (and definitely not on all those maps I’ve been talking about).
If anyone knows any online source that is already providing these graphs, please let me know and I’ll just point to that source.
Dataset is at the WHO site, and my copy is here.
Recommended Websites
BBC overview of world coronavirus outbreak
Worldometers - great data site
Our World in Data - coronavirus source data - provides clean version of the daily data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Best dashboard I’ve seen so far - lets you click a country and see graphs of new cases, recoveries, and deaths:
No longer updated
COVID-19 Cases, With and Without Including Population
COVID-19 DEATHS/day for N America, Europe, Asia & Middle East at Same Scale
Data via WHO at bit.ly/who-covid19-dash and various sources, as WHO site is sometimes down.
Data from WHO COVID-19 dashboard and flu updates here: https://www.who.int/influenza/surveillance_monitoring/updates/latest_update_GIP_surveillance/en/