From the course: Using Public Health Dashboards

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Data repository

Data repository

- [Instructor] When viewing a dashboard, it's important to keep in mind that the information being presented is dependent on the accuracy of the data that is collected. Although it's not always possible to know where the data has come from. In this case with John Hopkins website, we can see that in the footnote, there are links available for where the data can be found. Here it gives us a GitHub repository. By clicking on the link, I can go directly to the COVID-19 data repository that is maintained by John Hopkins. Here we get additional information about the data that is being shown to us on the dashboard. You can also get a link to the mobile view as well. If you are interested in the mobile view, you can click on this link on your regular browser. We can use any device, including mobile devices, as well as desktop and PCs to view the mobile view of the dashboard. You can see here on the bottom that there are several…

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