Overview

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Confirmed Cases in CARICOM

30670

Active Cases in CARICOM

11081

Total Recoveries in CARICOM

18951

Confirmed Deaths in CARICOM

638

Map

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Spatial Distribution of COVID-19

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Confirmed Cases among CARICOM Member States

Daily Increase in Cumulative Cases among Worst Affected CARICOM Member States

Explore Relationships

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Mortality and Recovery by Income and Economy Type (CARICOM)

economy mean(confirmed_per_100k) mean(mortality_rate) mean(recovery_rate)
Commodity Based 259.5627 1.928979 43.24022
Service Based 230.2179 1.365313 84.70460
income mean(confirmed_per_100k) mean(mortality_rate) mean(recovery_rate)
High income 275.88607 2.1328299 75.45606
Low income 76.64868 2.5831113 75.08398
Upper middle income 231.87577 0.9447647 76.13837
oecs mean(confirmed_per_100k) mean(mortality_rate) mean(recovery_rate)
Non-OECS Member State 381.09672 2.2100473 63.10849
OECS Member State 43.71857 0.5208333 92.76722

Box-plot Comparison of Confirmed Cases per 100k by Income Group (World)

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Recovery and Mortality Rate (CARICOM)

Relationship Between Confirmed Cases per 100k (Log Scale) and Population Aged 65 + (World)

Impact of Restrictions

The Google Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The data allows for the tracking of movement movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.This dataset is intended to help remediate the impact of COVID-19.


Residential activity is returning to levels seen during the first phase of the lockdown


  • Having witnessed the second wave of the pandemic, the worst affected countries in CARICOM have reimposed restrictions.
  • This trend is most evident in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas where the severity of the resurgence of the disease put no other choice in the hands of the authorities.
  • Policymakers continue to have to weigh the benefits of reimposing restrictions with the cons brought on by further reduced economic activity

Recreational Activity was returning to pre-pandemic levels, but this slowed following the reimposition of restrictions


  • Among the worst affected countries, the return of activity in recreational areas to levels seen before the pandemic have levelled off due to the reimposition of restrictions
  • Recreational activity has again contracted in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas due to the reimposition of restrictions
  • Haitian recreational levels have increased to levels above those seen before 2020, in spite of the ongoing pandemic

Workplace activity begins to contract as countries reipose restrictions


  • Having lifted the first set of restrictions, activity at work places began to quickly rebound
  • Given the second wave of the virus, and the need to reimpose restrictions, countries like Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas have seen dramatic contractions in workplace activity, almost reaching to levels seen durinig the first lockdown

Public Parks

Transit Stations

Groceries and Pharmacies

Confirmed

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Share of Confirmed Cases across CARICOM Member States

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Per 100k in Commodity Based Countries

Per 100k in Service Based Countries

Per 100,000 in OECS Member State

Deaths

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Share of Confirmed Cases across CARICOM Member States

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Per 100k among Commodity Based Countries

Per 100k among Service Based Countries

Per 100k among Service Based Countries

About

Overview

This Dashboard was created in partial fulfilment of the Developing Data Products Course which comprises one of the five courses necessary for the Data Science: Statistics and Machine Learning Specialization offered by Johns Hopikins University through Coursera. This assignment challenged candidates to Create a data product and a reproducible pitch. Once completed, candidates were required to host their webpage on either GitHub Pages, RPubs, or NeoCities. The webpage presentation must contain the date that you created the document, and it must contain a plot created with Plotly.All other coursework projects completed as part of this course can be found at my GitHub repository for this course.

Rationale

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. For this coursework project, I have opted to use Plotly to illustrate the spread of the Novel Coronavirus across CARICOM Member States. All CARICOM countries are classified as developing countries. They are all relatively small in terms of population and size, and diverse in terms of geography and population, culture and levels of economic and social development. While the pandemic was slow to reach the CARICOM region, the begining of March saw the onset of the pandemic among CARICOM member states.

Data Sources

With a view to map the spread of the disease thus far, I have elected to use two main data sources. Firstly, to obtain the most current data on the incidence of COVID-19, I have opted to utilise the data colelcted by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE is compiled from a cross section of sources daily. To supplement this data with relevant socio-demographic data, I have opted to utilise the World Development Indicator Database maintained by the World Bank Group. The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. The database contains 1,600 time series indicators for 217 economies and more than 40 country groups, with data for many indicators going back more than 50 years.

Data Cleaning

A number of specialised data cleaning scripts were prepared to garner current data on a range of issues. These scripts can be found in the GitHub repository created to store the content and code generated in the completion of this course.

Developer

Yohance Nicholas | Consultant Economist @ Kairi Consultants Limited | LinkedIn | GitHub