COVID19-world: a shiny application to perform comprehensive country-specific data visualization for SARS-CoV-2 epidemic
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- PMCID: PMC7503432
- DOI: 10.1186/s12874-020-01121-9
COVID19-world: a shiny application to perform comprehensive country-specific data visualization for SARS-CoV-2 epidemic
Abstract
Background: Data analysis and visualization is an essential tool for exploring and communicating findings in medical research, especially in epidemiological surveillance.
Results: Data on COVID-19 diagnosed cases and mortality, from January 1st, 2020, onwards is collected automatically from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). We have developed a Shiny application for data visualization and analysis of several indicators to follow the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic using ECDC data. A country-specific tool for basic epidemiological surveillance, in an interactive and user-friendly manner. The available analyses cover time trends and projections, attack rate, population fatality rate, case fatality rate, and basic reproduction number.
Conclusions: The COVID19-World online web application systematically produces daily updated country-specific data visualization and analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic worldwide. The application may help for a better understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic worldwide.
Keywords: Basic reproduction number; COVID-19; Case fatality rate; Data visualization; Epidemic; Mortality; Mortality rate; Poisson regression; SARS-CoV-2.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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