COVID-19 Data Sets to Keep You Informed on the Crisis

We look at five important COVID-19 data sets that provide important information on the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak has dominated media coverage globally and profoundly affected communities worldwide. However, we benefit from living in an era where information is readily accessible, enabling us to leverage available data to support pandemic response efforts and inform critical decisions.

The scientific community has responded to COVID-19 by generating valuable datasets benefiting both medical professionals and data scientists.

The five major COVID-19 datasets covered are: Johns Hopkins Global Coronavirus Data, CORD-19 (containing over 40,000 scholarly articles), nCoV-2019 (featuring real-time geo-coded case information), WHO COVID-19 (daily-updated literature and data), and COVID-19 Tweet IDs (compiling millions of pandemic-related tweets).