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beoutbreakprepared / nCoV2019

Location for summaries and analysis of data related to n-CoV 2019, first reported in Wuhan, China
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Latest data - Don't use timestamp in the filename #40

Open c-pinho opened 4 years ago

c-pinho commented 4 years ago

Hi guys,

First of all, congratulations on the awesome work you are all doing.

A quick request for the latest data set. Don't add the timestamp in the filename, since this makes the job of maintaining other systems/works updated. Either, create it only with date, or something like "latestdata.csv".

This will make our jobs much easier when working with BI tools to automate data updates.

aezarebski commented 4 years ago

A nice solution would be to have a current-linelist.csv and then maintain the archive of files with date in the filename, i.e., outside_Hubei.data.<datestring>.csv . This would allow people to point to particular file for the most up to date version of the date without breaking our existing approach of archiving previous versions. I'm not sure who copies into the archive, but this should be an easy modification.

@t-brewer ???

rjf777 commented 4 years ago

Why/how are there so many records without a confirmation date within this csv to be used as the timeline? There are many records without any temporal date field populated, then that record is not usable for a timeline.