pescetti/covid-19

COVID-19 Italia - Monitoraggio situazione

covid-19's Issues

Fix typos in issue template

Fix a few typos in the English issue template.

Automated sanity checks of data

Scope

Maps and charts at http://data.pescetti.it/2020-03-coronavirus-near-me/home.html are supposed to be updated automatically each time the upstream repo changes.

Data may have inconsistencies or be subject to misinterpretation, see pcm-dpc#93 for an example. Since we want full automation (including website updates), we need to validate assumptions upon each refresh from the upstream repo.

Tasks

• Define reasonable assumptions that can be checked (e.g.: the number of total cases in a given province/region never decreases; the total by province, including the "fake province", equals the region data)
• Write scripts to check them against one source (or better, write scripts that regenerate JSON and GeoJSON see #1 data from CSV)
• Ideally, integrate this in a CI system that can immediately flag problems in data

Fix misleading example in README.md

Scope

README.md says that codice_provincia is a number. This is correct, but ISTAT codes are actually strings ("067" and not "67"). So this means that applications should expect to see a number, hence 67 and not 067.

Tasks

Fix the (misleading) example in README.md.

Handle JSON files with BOM

Scope

Today's JSON files contain a BOM, see pcm-dpc#174

This was breaking today's map at http://data.pescetti.it/2020-03-coronavirus-near-me/choropleth.html

A hotfix has been implemented to restore service and the map works now.

Tasks

• Make BOM removal part of the data transformation process, unless the issue is fixed upstream.

Provide GeoJSON data

Scope

The upstream repository https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19 already provides CSV and JSON, as well as pure-geography (without data) geojson files.

For many mapping use cases it would be better to have GeoJSON files with embedded data.

Tasks

• Provide a GeoJSON file for provinces
• Provide a GeoJSON file for regions