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A citizen science initiative for open data and visualization of COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala, India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

India reported its first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case in the state of Kerala and an outbreak initiated subsequently. The Department of Health Services, Government of Kerala, initially released daily updates through daily textual bulletins for public awareness to control the spread of the disease. However, these unstructured data limit upstream applications, such as visualization, and analysis, thus demanding refinement to generate open and reusable datasets.

Materials and methods

Through a citizen science initiative, we leveraged publicly available and crowd-verified data on COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala from the government bulletins and media outlets to generate reusable datasets. This was further visualized as a dashboard through a front-end Web application and a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) repository, which serves as an application programming interface for the front end.

Results

From the sourced data, we provided real-time analysis, and daily updates of COVID-19 cases in Kerala, through a user-friendly bilingual dashboard (https://covid19kerala.info/) for nonspecialists. To ensure longevity and reusability, the dataset was deposited in an open-access public repository for future analysis. Finally, we provide outbreak trends and demographic characteristics of the individuals affected with COVID-19 in Kerala during the first 138 days of the outbreak.

Discussion

We anticipate that our dataset can form the basis for future studies, supplemented with clinical and epidemiological data from the individuals affected with COVID-19 in Kerala.

Conclusions

We reported a citizen science initiative on the COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala to collect and deposit data in a structured format, which was utilized for visualizing the outbreak trend and describing demographic characteristics of affected individuals.

SUBMITTER: Ulahannan JP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454688 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A citizen science initiative for open data and visualization of COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala, India.

Ulahannan Jijo Pulickiyil JP Narayanan Nikhil N Thalhath Nishad N Prabhakaran Prem P Chaliyeduth Sreekanth S Suresh Sooraj P SP Mohammed Musfir M Rajeevan E E Joseph Sindhu S Balakrishnan Akhil A Uthaman Jeevan J Karingamadathil Manoj M Thomas Sunil Thonikkuzhiyil ST Sureshkumar Unnikrishnan U Balan Shabeesh S Vellichirammal Neetha Nanoth NN

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 20201201 12

<h4>Objective</h4>India reported its first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case in the state of Kerala and an outbreak initiated subsequently. The Department of Health Services, Government of Kerala, initially released daily updates through daily textual bulletins for public awareness to control the spread of the disease. However, these unstructured data limit upstream applications, such as visualization, and analysis, thus demanding refinement to generate open and reusable datasets.<h4>Mate ...[more]

PMID: 32761211

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A citizen science initiative for open data and visualization of COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala, India.

Objective

Materials and methods

Results

Discussion

Conclusions

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A citizen science initiative for open data and visualization of COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala, India.

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