Coronavirus Data Collector

Collect the COVID-19 related data for research and analysis

Prerequisites

You need to have Python 3.1+ installed in your computer (I use Anaconda platform for development):

1. Create a new environment using conda create -n coronaVirus command and select it to be activated using conda activate coronaVirus.
2. Install essential libraries using the below command: conda install pandas matplotlib wordcloud
3. You may need to use pip to install OpenBlender package using pip install OpenBlender

Datasets

The application uses Center for System Science and Engineering (CSSE) COVID-19 daily reports provided by Johns Hopkins University (link to dataset) as coronavirus recent statistics. Sign up through this link (it is free) to be able to pull the dataset. However, I have included a dataset for April 20, 2020 in this repository, but if you want to access the real-time data, you should pull it from the OpenBlender website. You can also use the API token provided for you after registration and pull the dataset into a Pandas dataframe. A sample script to do this is provided in the repository.

References

1. Towards data science article (see link)