Canada Recovery Data

[RKattoula]

Not seeing recovery data for Canada, but it is being updated in the John Hopkins data.

Those are the only NA's I'm seeing. Great work on this - thanks a ton.

[anuveyatsu]

@RKattoula thanks for reporting this. It's happening due to inconsistency in the data files from the upstream:

• look at the confirmed (and deaths) data - https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_confirmed_global.csv - you can see that Canada figures are provided by its regions
• however, recovered data for Canada is provided in total for entire country - https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_recovered_global.csv - so we can't join that data with confirmed and deaths cases

Any suggestion would be useful 😄

[sympatheia-one]

Suggestions: There seem to be at least 3 options: (1) leave out to reflect the source and see if they will eventually update (2) "allocate" the total # of Recovered to the various provinces (for example in relation to their confirmed cases) or (3) just push the Revovered cases for Canada into a new set of rows where the Province/Region is labelled as something non-existing like RECOVERED AGGREGATE and which then will just have the Recovered numbers.

(1) is obviously the easiest...
(2) is inventing numbers that don't really exist and may not be useful for some
(3) [my preference] at least on a sum-per-country level we are back to the full picture

[anuveyatsu]

@sgg70 option 3 sounds good to me

[anuveyatsu]

Fixed. Please, check and close this issue.

@RKattoula @sgg70

[sympatheia-one]

hmm... just one question:

looking at the raw file, there is now a "Recovery" block with no real value, and then the "Recovery Aggregated", as suggested. I guess that first part can be omitted!?

[anuveyatsu]

@sgg70 yes, the first one is the buggy data from the upstream that I've missed. Should be fixed now.