neherlab / covid19_scenarios

Models of COVID-19 outbreak trajectories and hospital demand
https://covid19-scenarios.org
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adding information about implemented measures #347

Open VMBoehm opened 4 years ago

VMBoehm commented 4 years ago

Hi! This this is a great way to crowd source data :) Are you considering adding information/flags about the measures that have been taken at which time in different countries (school closures/ social distancing etc)?

nnoll commented 4 years ago

That's an interesting idea that we haven't yet considered. It would also work well with our intended restructring of how we input mitigation strategies into our model. Do you have any thoughts for how best to keep track of such data?

VMBoehm commented 4 years ago

all I can think of is media. for a single country or region it shouldn't require much work for people to research what was implemented when and you could just ask them to append this information. But you would have to pre-define categories/classes of measures, so that they can be encoded in a one hot vector or something the like.

noleti commented 4 years ago

I found the following Crowd-sourced COVID-19 Dataset Tracking Involuntary Government Restrictions (TIGR), just leaving this here for reference: https://github.com/rexdouglass/TIGR

nnoll commented 4 years ago

I'm transferring this to the main repo as we are no longer going to keep this as submodule but rather just a directory within covid19_scenarios.