From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources

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Using Worldometer

Using Worldometer

- Worldometer is another data aggregation website that provides information about the Coronavirus cases, including deaths, reported rates of recovery, active cases and closed cases, as well as information about the mild or seriousness of the condition. If I were to click on the view by country, you can see that it takes you to a list of different countries and the number of cases for that area. Now, this is not very useful, in terms of functionality. I have to keep scrolling and looking for whichever country that I'm interested in looking at. But if I were to just scroll down from that main page where I was prior, I can see from here very easier, it's both easier to view as well as easier to sort. I can just click on this button and sort alphabetically. And there's also a search bar, I can use as well. Of course, if I put in the United States, you can see that nothing appears. So functionality is not fully operational.…

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