Recovered time series are gone

ExpDev07 / coronavirus-tracker-api

🦠 A simple and fast (< 200ms) API for tracking the global coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) outbreak. It's written in python using the 🔥 FastAPI framework. Supports multiple sources!

https://coronavirus-tracker-api.herokuapp.com

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Recovered time series are gone #200

Open paolotamag opened 4 years ago

paolotamag commented 4 years ago

If you check now the api returns 0 recovered and empty lists in the json for time series of recovered.

Abdirahiim commented 4 years ago

Our main data provided (JHU) has decided to drop support for recovery data, hence, the API will show 0 until an alternative source is added for world data.

There’s a notice regarding this change on the top of the README. Unfortunately little I can do besides change data source, which again, many people will get upset with.

Originally posted by @ExpDev07 in https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api/issues/161#issuecomment-603066941

paolotamag commented 4 years ago

this is indeed a problem for our application, can we at least show the old data and then missing values since the days they removed the recovered features?

ExpDev07 commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api/issues/161

ExpDev07 commented 4 years ago

@paolotamag it's better to show nothing than outdated data, in my opinion :/.

paolotamag commented 4 years ago

no outdated, missing so you can still display the correct data.

timestamp before JHU updated the dataset : 5 recovered cases
timestamp after JHU updated the dataset : 5 +? = ? recovered cases that is a missing value

still not worth it maybe but potentially correct instead of showing still 5 even though it probably increased in number but it was not recorded, at least old visualization and application of people will work until the date JHU removed that feature.