Library Guides: Coronavirus Resources: Publications, Data, Teaching, and Staying Safe: Data Sources

Data Sources

Lehigh University Library Resources:

In addition to the usual bibliographic and full text library resources, resources that provide data are Statista, Data-Planet Statistical Datasets and Statistical Ready Reference and (for mapping) Social Explorer.

Local newspaper articles can help identify modeling and data gathering efforts. For example, see these articles from Pennsylvania newspapers:

Morning Call How many people in Pa. will be infected with the coronavirus? Scientific modeling is trying to find the answer.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pitt disease modeling platform predicts high COVID-19 hospitalization

Other Resources:

Carnegie Mellon University COVIDcast: Delphi Research Group Real-time COVID-19 Indicators
Covid Act Now
"CovidActNow.org was created by a team of data scientists, engineers, and designers in partnership with epidemiologists, public health officials, and political leaders to help understand how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect their region.
This tool is built to enable political leaders to quickly make decisions in their Coronavirus response informed by best available data and modeling."
Digital Science/Dimensions : Facilitating access to COVID-19 research
"For researchers, early knowledge and access to research being carried out and published is critical. In order to facilitate this, we are able to free people from the constraints of specific applications and platforms by providing all relevant content on COVID-19 in Dimensions as a single export file, updated daily, to make sharing and distributing this research information easier."
"The file contains the details of (and links to) all relevant publications, data sets and clinical trials." See links in the announcement above.
Google: COVID-19 Information & Resources
Johns Hopkins University and Medicine: Interactive Map and Resourcees
See data sources beneath the map at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
See also https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
The Lens: COVID-19 Datasets
"The Lens has assembled free and open datasets of patent documents, scholarly research works metadata and biological sequences from patents, and deposited them in a machine-readable and explorable form."
Medical Library Association
"This curated list will be updated as frequently as possible and has been created from crowd-sourced suggestions from MLA members and other health information professionals on the front lines of providing information during the COVID-19 pandemic."
New York Times GitHub link: "We’re Sharing Coronavirus Case Data for Every U.S. County"
See the Link labeled "Download county-level data for coronavirus cases in the United States from The New York Times on GitHub."
PA Dept. of Health: COVID-19 Testing in Pennsylvania
Data table, plus link to county map at bottom.
Penn Medicine - COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics
Qinsight: Fighting COVID-19? Get free access to AI-powered Qinsight
Semantic Scholar: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)
Unacast: Social Distancing Scoreboard
"According to the World Health Organization and the CDC, social distancing is currently the most effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19. We created this interactive Scoreboard, updated daily, to empower organizations to measure and understand the efficacy of social distancing initiatives at the local level." Scroll down.
University of Pittsburgh: FRED: Framework for Reconstructing Epidemiological Dynamics
World Health Organization/Esri Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation
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Data Sources