COVID19 Vaccination Italy

Introduction

This Python script shows and saves some charts that explain how the COVID-19 vaccination in Italy is going. The datasets are available at italia/covid19-opendata-vaccini.

Prereqs (at least)

• Python 3.7.9
• Matplotlib 3.4.1
• Numpy 1.20.0
• Tweepy 3.10.0

How to run

1. Install matplotlib, numpy and tweepy

Open a command window and type:

python -m pip install -U pip

python -m pip install -U matplotlib

pip install numpy

pip install tweepy

2. Run

Open a command window and type python main.py.

The charts are saved in Charts directory and in a folder named as the day the charts refer to.

The code

• main.py downloads the datasets, produces and saves the Charts.

• twitter.py posts a thread on Twitter account @VacciniCovidITA uploading the charts made.

• readme_autoupdate.py updates the README.md with the new charts link.

• gitignore_autoupdate.py updates the .gitignore in order to commit only the latest chart folder created.

Charts

If SHOW_CHARTS_ENABLED = 1, the charts are shown in the command window. If SAVING_CHARTS_ENABLED = 0, the charts will not be saved.

Here are shown some charts that this script created on 2022-02-25.