Category: Covid19

4. Experiments Plotting Charts with Python – Google Cloud Platform

I have continued to experiment with Python to draw data charts, this time setting up Python (and Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, and Matplotlib) on Google Cloud Platform (https://cloud.google.com). Today (6th April 2021) I downloaded the latest official UK Coronavirus reported case data from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases and tried out some Matplotlib formatting and labelling.I made a column chart…

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Effect of Vaccination on the Distribution of Weekly Covid-19 Deaths in England

I took a look at the latest Covid-19 daily deaths in English hospitals statistics, available to download from the NHS website here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/. They include a weekly breakdown by age of those who have lost their lives after testing positive for coronavirus. The Excel chart above shows the number in each age-group who died with…

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Coronavirus Worldwide Analysis – 19Mar21

Using the Coronavirus Pandemic Dataset, downloadable: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data from Our World in Data, I looked at how the number of deaths attributed to Coronavirus is changing for various countries. I selected only those countries which have a population in excess of 2 million, and which had already suffered a total of at least 500 deaths per…

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8. Covid-19 Dashboard with Power BI

Our World in Data have a comprehensive Coronavirus Pandemic downloadable dataset available in Excel, CSV, and JSON formats. I read the Our World in Data have a comprehensive downloadable Coronavirus Pandemic dataset available in Excel, CSV, and JSON formats. I imported the CSV datafile directly from the web into Power BI, pre-processed the data a…

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Covid-19 Check 07Mar21

Looking at the data from Johns Hopkins (https://data.humdata.org/) to see how various countries are doing at the moment with regards to their respective fights against the Coronavirus pandemic. The chart below shows the percentage increase in deaths due to Covid-19 for last week compared to the reports from the week before for countries with >500…

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Coronavirus in Brazil – 03Mar21

Looking at the Covid-19 data for Brazil today (4th March 2021) – sourced from https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-source-data – daily reported cases are heading upwards exponentially. ….and daily deaths heading the same way.