[vosper]

This was my experience trying to work with the Johns Hopkins COVID data.

I don't know if Johns Hopkins became the canonical data source because they were amongst the first to have public data and charts, but honestly I was kinda surprised at the low quality, coming from a group called "Center for Systems Science and Engineering". Their data was far harder to use than it needed to be, even months into the pandemic.

Fortunately there were a handful of other projects dedicated to making it sane and resolving the inconsistencies, unreconciled changes in format, etc... that was really helpful.

[chmullig]

Which projects do you think have particularly high quality and easy to work with data? I was using that but it’s so messy...