Ask and Idea to collaborate from Venezuela

[rafael]

Context and Intro

Hi friends from John Hopkins! First, as always with these kind of efforts, thank you so much for all the work here. Making this data available help people around the world make better decisions.

My name is Rafael Chacón. I'm a software engineer working in infrastructure at Slack. I'm also on one the cofounders of Code For Venezuela, a non-profit that is focused on using technology to help Venezuela.

Ask

At the moment, we are working with Julio Castro from Medicos por la Salud, another non-profit in Venezuela that is focused on making health indicators publicly available. We are starting to collect data about the country and we were wondering what would be the process to publish it in here.

Ideas to collaborate

We imported the data from this repo and made it available via bigquery under the following:

• project: event-pipeline
• dataset: angostura_public
• table: csse_covid_19_data

We will be updating daily from this repo. If you find this useful we could add a link to it in the README. We are using the data in bigquery to create this visualization focused in Venezuela.

[rafael]

The first two official cases were reported in Venezuela today: https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2020/03/13/confirman-los-primeros-casos-de-coronavirus-en-venezuela/