Inspiration

To be able to actually use international time-resolved data on Corona infections, it would be crucial to have them in the same data structure, transparently acquired from official sources.

Starting from the data Johns Hopkins University uses for their maps and charts, we want to integrate high-resolution data (i.e. states/provinces/counties instead of nations) for other countries than the US as well. So far, we started integrating:

Germany (data for each individual 'Landkreis')
Italy (data for each individual 'provincia')
Switzerland (data for each individual 'Canton')

...more to follow. Later on, we could try and integrate these with measures taken against further spread, such as closing schools.

What we need

We need additional data sources, which provide the number of cases on a daily basis and in high resolution, e.g. for each individual province or county. In addition, we are interested in any suggestions for useful features, especially from a medical or epidemiological standpoint?

Milestones

Integrate region data from:
- [x] Germany
- [x] Italy
- [x] Switzerland
[x] Make first visualizations to demonstrate the improved resolution
[ ] Add more useful features like implementation day of administrative measure

How we built it

We use the following git repo: https://github.com/satzvonrolle/datavsvirus

Challenges we ran into

Get valuable input from people in the medical field, what would be needed most, etc. Which data would be crucial to make our work useful?
Get our hands on free meaningful data
Avoid downtime of people working
Avoid doing things multiple times by different people

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Converted database from Germany, Italy and Switzerland to a format consistent with the dataset provided by JHU
Extended dataset provided by JHU with high-resolution information of Germany, Italy and Switzerland
Initial visualization of the number of Corona cases for multiple countries with very high resolution
Our hackathon pitch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebte-no6nKU&feature=youtu.be

What's next for Datenfusion & Visualisierung von RKI Daten

Add more datasources from different countries
Add data on counter measures
Interactive visualization of our merged dataset, which would provide more detail than current dashboards