COVID-19-Tracker

This repository houses code for the visualization of data pertaining to the spread of COVID-19.

Introduction:

• This code was developed as an activity to keep myself busy, on the first day of the Total Lockdown in India, following the rise in the cases of COVID-19 pandemic. This was also, co-incidentally, the first day of the Indian New Year (Gudhi Padwa / Yugadi). The subsequent additions were made later.
• These programmes fetch the latest data pertaining to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic from web-based data sources and plot/tabulate them.
• The programmes do not manipulate or add any new data. The purpose of these programmes is to visualize the real-time data on a global as well as regional (within India) scale.

Dependencies:

• This repository relies on the COVID-19-India_Data repository for visualizing the Indian regional data.
• This repository relies on the covid-19 repository by the @datasets team for visualizing the global data. I am grateful to the team for regularly compiling, cleaning and updating this dataset from various reliable upstream data sources.
• External Python libraries: pandas, numpy and matplotlib.

Licensing:

• The upstream datasets are available under the Open Data Commons Public Domain and Dedication License (ODC PDDL) and the MIT License.
• However, this package does not modify data or provide any new data.
• This package provides visualizing tools which can be freely used and modified by anyone. Therefore, this package is available under the MIT License.

Common Issues:

• The data from the USA are represented using the country name US.
• The data from the UK are represented using the country name United Kingdom.