Global country data for the 'Realtime R0' notebook

[NicoWeiner]

Hi Kevin,

thank you very much for publishing your notebook! I was so free to create a version that imports global country data instead of US-only data. The data is compiled and updated on a daily basis by https://ourworldindata.org.

I hope it is of value!

Best,
Nicolas Weiner

[sanzgiri]

Hi Nicolas, I have created a similar extension for countries in https://github.com/sanzgiri/covid-19/blob/master/Realtime_R0_by_country.ipynb. I used data from https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data

I ran into an issue for a few countries:

• for China & France, the highest_density_interval() function does not return correctly
• for Uganda, ran into another issue

But it ran fine for the rest. Curious if you something similar.

Thanks,
Ashutosh

[NicoWeiner]

Hi Ashutosh,
France worked fine in my case but China has indeed an issue with the HDI function. I do not know why at this point. In Uganda's case, the issue might be that less than 10 cases are reported in the dataset that you used. I encountered the error that the cases have to be at least two digit (>9) or else the HDI function wouldn't run.

[chrissng]

Here's my stab at global using aggregated country-level case counts from Core Datasets: https://github.com/chrissng/covid-19

That said, I don't think it's fare to compare across countries as approach to testing varies across countries.