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The perils of COVID-19 pandemic have spanned across various countries risking millions of lives and jobs across the world. The pandemic outbreak, however, does invites a widespread of misinformation regarding the illness. This calls for the responsibilities that concerned authorities must take towards society to channel correct and accurate information regarding coronavirus. Therefore, many prestigious organizations and universities have come up with some innovative AI, big data and analytics enabled COVID-19 trackers and maps to gauge the impact of pandemic across globe.
Here are some top COVID-19 dashboards and trackers that you should be aware of.
Professor Lauren Gardner, a civil and systems engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University, built the dashboard with her graduate student, Ensheng Dong. It is maintained at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering, with technical support from ESRI and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
The map was first shared publicly on Jan. 22. It was developed to provide researchers, public health authorities, and the general public with a user-friendly tool to track the outbreak as it unfolds. All data collected and displayed are made freely available through a GitHub repository, along with the feature layers of the dashboard, which are now included in the ESRI Living Atlas. The map is maintained in near real time throughout the day through a combination of manual and automated updating. The time of the latest update is noted on the bottom of the dashboard. The GitHub database updates daily at around 11:59 p.m. UTC. Occasional maintenance can result in slower updates.
WHO has released a substantial update to its COVID-19 information dashboard. It allows access to current and reliable data on COVID-19 cases submitted directly to WHO by countries. The upgrade was developed and supported by the WHO Technology for COVID-19 initiative, a pro-bono collaboration of technology companies, brought together by WHO to fight the pandemic.
A prominent new feature is the release of the mobile-friendly version. In addition, the dashboard has a clean and modern interface and several data visualization tools to better grasp the current status of COVID-19 as the situation unfolds. Users will now be able to view: New and confirmed cases and deaths globally with daily statistics; Country-specific info by clicking on any country on the interactive map; Interactive chart showing reported cases by WHO region including daily and cumulative statistics; Confirmed cases and deaths, and changes over time in a specific country, region, or territory, on the interactive chart; A new explorer tab designed to provide complex datasets for easy access and use. It allows users to select variables across three axis, which helps see correlations and relationships that can provide insights into COVID-19 and how communities are responding to it.
Microsoft's Bing team has rolled out a web portal to track coronavirus outbreak progress worldwide. The portal gives away all the updated infection statistics for each country. As an interactive map, the tracker enables users to click on the country to see the specific number of cases and related articles from different publishers. Reportedly, data is being aggregated from sources including WHO, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The tech giant announced the product two days following the US President Donald Trump's statement regarding Google's initiative in building COVID-19-related portal for US citizens.
HealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children's Hospital founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. The freely available Web site 'healthmap.org' and mobile app 'Outbreaks Near Me' deliver real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases including novel coronavirus for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers.
This map is made by the Humanistic GIS Lab at University of Washington – Seattle. The data are mainly collected from WHO, CDC, PHA , China CDC, NBC News, Wikipedia, and Baidu. Regarding the state level data in the U.S., they are collected from CDC, state officials and NBC News. The computational resources are provided by UW's Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. The base maps are from Carto and ESRI, and the geospatial data for the base maps are acquired from the OpenStreetMap. The timely updated dataset of the virus infection can be downloaded here. Details about this interactive map can be found here. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Bo Zhao.
