nevrome / covid19germany

R package - Load, visualise and analyse daily updated data on the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany
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International comparative data #23

Closed stschiff closed 3 years ago

stschiff commented 4 years ago

I was thinking that for some analyses it'd be awesome to have some comparative data from other countries as well. I'm aware that this wasn't the original plan for this package, but perhaps we can restrict it to just country-level data for outside of Germany, and make clear that this mainly for comparative purposes?

Possible sources would be: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide

or

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_daily_reports

What do you think?

I'm imagining a function to load this data into a separate tibble, but perhaps also a function to merge it with the grouped RKI data?

I'm happy to get active myself, just first would like to get some feedback on this idea.