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Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Coronavirus time-enabled maps

[Update: thrilled to present at How to do Map Stuff: a Live Community Sharing Event
Update: The Times' Sam Joiner just cleared  England COVID map for London crowding using ridge map animation] 

Local dashboards updated daily from Public Heath England data are bolstered by other open data: As coronavirus affects most notably the eldest and youngest, Office for National Statistics age distribution is a welcome addition to case distribution maps. A static web map showed cases and age distribution side-by-side - a story map has the full back story on its derivation - Kenneth Field's "coxcombs"  post static time-series that helped identify here vulnerable groups of elder and younger populations, and to overlay them atop progressive case numbers over a set time period.
As both storymaps above will show - I filtered greater London due to over-crowded symbology - perhaps animation may help clear it up?

HealthMap COVID-19 in England - local view

 The Open COVID-19 Data Curation Group also posted anonymised date-of-confirmation and  country-of-provenance for individuals globally in HealthMap.

The current lock-down gave me time to come up with a pivot-and-fan flamenco-style:

>> a set downloaded from Github on 04/04/2020  provides data for 31/01-26/03/2020

>>  pivot-tables turned these into time-series data by County / Unitary Authority as above

>>  parsing symbol attributes into dates allowed to animated the coxcomb fans over time




HealthMap COVID-19 in England - global view

The same data treated like Where in the World is Andrew? to link departure and arrival points where available, and animated in time as simple points and lines:


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