COnVIDa: COVID-19 multidisciplinary data collection and dashboard

Abstract

Since the first reported case in Wuhan in late 2019, COVID-19 has rapidly spread worldwide, dramatically impacting the lives of millions of citizens. To deal with the severe crisis resulting from the pandemic, worldwide institutions have been forced to make decisions that 1 affect the socio-economic realm. In this sense, researchers from diverse knowledge areas are investigating the behavior of the disease in a rush against time. In both cases, the lack of reliable data has been an obstacle to carry out such tasks with accuracy. To tackle this challenge, COnVIDa (https://convida.inf.um.es) has been designed and developed as a user-friendly tool that easily gathers rigorous multidisciplinary data related to the COVID-19 pandemic from different data sources. In particular, the pandemic expansion is analyzed with variables of health nature, but also social ones, mobility, etc. Besides, COnVIDa permits to smoothly join such data, compare and download them for further analysis. Due to the open-science nature of the project, COnVIDa is easily extensible to any other region of the planet. In this way, COnVIDa becomes a data facilitator for decision-making processes, as well as a catalyst for new scientific researches related to this pandemic.

Development of the COVID-19 Real-Time Information System for Preparedness and Epidemic Response (CRISPER), Australia

“…The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has underscored the importance of rapid information sharing of accurate data to assist with outbreak response and public health decision making. To address this ongoing need for accurate real-time data ( 1 ), numerous COVID-19 dashboards have been created worldwide for many different purposes including tracking cases and deaths by place and time ( 2 – 4 ), mapping telehealth services ( 5 ), monitoring areas of vulnerability using information such as infection rates and population attributes ( 6 ), tracking information on COVID-19 clinical trials ( 7 ), genomic surveillance ( 8 ) and vaccine rollout ( 9 ).…”

Visual Analytics of Twitter and Social Media Dataflows: a Casestudy of COVID-19 Rumors

“…Despite the existence of wide variety of software for monitoring coronavirus, a number of authors have proposed new visualization tools [12,13,14,15]. Martínez Beltra ́n et al [12] describe developed "web-based, user-friendly dashboard for interactive plotting" which is able to analyse both coronavirus and related data, such as maximum temperature, grocery and pharmacy, etc., mostly in Spain.…”

“…Despite the existence of wide variety of software for monitoring coronavirus, a number of authors have proposed new visualization tools [12,13,14,15]. Martínez Beltra ́n et al [12] describe developed "web-based, user-friendly dashboard for interactive plotting" which is able to analyse both coronavirus and related data, such as maximum temperature, grocery and pharmacy, etc., mostly in Spain. As Marcílio-Jr et al [13] writes: "Visualization-based strategies for monitoring the dissemination of diseases account for the fact that graphical representations can enhance the ability to identify data patterns and tendencies".…”

Portable Coffin Lowering Device for COVID-19 Corpse Handling: Education, Design Process, and Strength Analysis

“…The World Health Organization (WHO) in China was alerted on December 31, 2019, that many patients with an undisclosed form of pneumonia have been found in Wuhan, China (Beltrán et al, 2021). This earlier unknown phenomenon was finally identified as a newly discovered infectious disease .…”

“…COVID-19 has quickly spread across the world since the first confirmed case in Wuhan in late 2019. Soon on March 11, 2020 the pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) (Jimenez-Sotomayor et al, 2020;Beltrán et al, 2021). COVID-19 has spread to almost all countries in the world, including Indonesia.…”