From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources

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Review of COVID-19 data sources

Review of COVID-19 data sources

- Selecting wrong data runs the risk of turning your data dreams into a real world nightmare. Data must be usable from an operational standpoint and align with the tools that are available to process that data. This is why it's so important that we know all of the technical details, limitations, and the benefits of the different data sources that are available on the market. For each of the following COVID-19 data resources, I'm going to go over the good, the bad and the ugly, to give you an idea of what the benefits and limitations might be for selecting this data source for your projects. A great feature for this dataset is the availability and access to data files on GitHub. All of the data is not only available on GitHub, but the site also uses functionalities such as the issues manager, so if you find anything wrong with the data or want to investigate potential issues, you can access other issues that have been logged…

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