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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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Thanks for publishing the data, and some identified data quality issues (admin field, duplication) #43

Open steven4320555 opened 4 years ago

steven4320555 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for publishing the dataset, it creates a possible structure of looking at anonymised individual-level data. The methodology reads sound, but the quality of data can definitely improve over time.

For example, there are some links in admin columns.

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And there are cases, same reference referring to different ID. (As a bonus, I found the original link used in the data has been updated to https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cmo-for-england-announces-4-new-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-2-march-2020 ) Instead of 2021 as referenced in the data.

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Looking at the symptoms field, it seems to me that some data standardisation was attempted (for example 22, 23 ). Hope to get some consistency of descriptions.

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Hope the quality of data can be improved over time. Good work!

smazrouee commented 4 years ago

I wonder how did they extract these symptoms and gave it it an ID with age, location, etc. I checked some of the publications, there is no specific information about individuals. I don't see anything under wiki tab. Is there a place that they explained how the collect/refine this data? thanks