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After scouring 50+ government websites for a week to expand @OurWorldInData& #39;s COVID-19 testing dataset:
- We& #39;ve found *four* very good examples of easily accessible time series (namely Estonia, Belgium, Czechia and @COVID19Tracking)
- The rest is a mess. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing ">https://ourworldindata.org/covid-tes...
- We& #39;ve found *four* very good examples of easily accessible time series (namely Estonia, Belgium, Czechia and @COVID19Tracking)
- The rest is a mess. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing ">https://ourworldindata.org/covid-tes...
Curiously, a lot of govs are using cloud dashboards (DataStudio, DataWrapper, Tableau…) that may look really cool, but make automated data collection (and thus data re-use) basically impossible—and they& #39;re *much* longer to set up than a basic table with a link to a CSV file 
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Avoid PDF files; don& #39;t build dashboards; make your data accessible and readable in good old tables, spreadsheets or CSVs. Academic as well as amateur researchers will thank you for it!
Avoid PDF files; don& #39;t build dashboards; make your data accessible and readable in good old tables, spreadsheets or CSVs. Academic as well as amateur researchers will thank you for it!
