COVID 19 Data and Dashboard for South Africa

Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository for South Africa

COVID 19 Data for South Africa created, maintained and hosted by Data Science for Social Impact research group, led by Dr. Vukosi Marivate, at the University of Pretoria.

Disclaimer: We have worked to keep the data as accurate as possible. We collate the COVID 19 reporting data from NICD and DoH. We only update that data once there is an official report or statement. For the other data, we work to keep the data as accurate as possible. If you find errors. Make a pull request.

If you use this repo for any research/development/innovation, please contact us (see contacts below)

See our blog posts:

• Why we built this and how we are working,
• How this is a call to action across the African continent

If you are interested in the Africa-wide effort: Go to https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19africa

For information on daily updates on the repo, go to https://twitter.com/vukosi/status/1239184086633242630?s=20

Licenses

Code | Data

Data Available [/data]

NOTE: Since around 24 March, we have not gotten individual case data from DoH or NICD. For now if you need provincial counts use the provincial_cumulative_timeline. For indivividual cases up to 25 March, use the confirmed_cases.

Visualisation

• Google Data Studio Dashboard URL link
• Coronavirus Map [Website] [GitHub Repo]

Data Sources:

• NICD - South Africa URL
• Department of Health - South Africa Main Site, Twitter
• South African Government Media Statements URL
• National Department of Health Data Dictionary URL
• MedPagesURL
• Statistics South AfricaURL

Contributing

Options

• I want to help, but dont have an idea: You can take a look at the issues to see which one you might be interested in tackling.
• I have an idea or new feature: Create a new issue first, assign it to yourself and then fork the repo.

Submitting Changes [Pull Request]

• See https://opensource.com/article/19/7/create-pull-request-github

Contributors

• See https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19za/graphs/contributors

Contact

• Vukosi Marivate - vukosi.marivate@cs.up.ac.za, @vukosi

Citing the dataset

On a visualisation/notebook/webapp:

Data Science for Social Impact Research Group @ University of Pretoria, Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository for South Africa. Available on: https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19za.

In a publication

@dataset{marivate_vukosi_2020_3732419, author = {Marivate, Vukosi and de Waal, Alta and Combrink, Herkulaas and Lebogo, Ofentswe and Moodley, Shivan and Mtsweni, Nompumelelo and Rikhotso, Vuthlari and Welsh, Jay and Mkhondwane, S’busiso}, title = {{Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case data - South Africa}}, month = mar, year = 2020, publisher = {Zenodo}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3732419}, url = {[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3732419(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3732419)} }

Showcase

• Covid19 SA Data