Top 10 Dashboards COVID-19

The COVID-19 disease, of the Coronavirus family needs no introduction! How many around the world are infected? What is the mortality rate in each region. How many are recovered around the world?

Fear has been building in society, perhaps also due to the existence of a lot of information (with only some of it being trusted) but also because there is still no solution. The volume of data generated is unbelievable. Therefore, countless companies have created several dashboards to visualize (at hourly, daily, and other cycles) * (as far as possible) these dimensions and metrics.

1. Domo

A great example of a dashboard.

It has a great user interface, it looks like a website, so it’s easy to navigate even for those who don’t have data skills. It does not scare laypeople when they land here looking for information.

It is divided by category, which facilitates the way the data is shown and how we will understand it.

Storytelling: is a great resource to be used in dashboards. As a facilitating resource, it uses questions that make reading simple. You read the question and when you look at the graph you already know exactly the metrics it is showing you. It doesn’t make you invest time and energy trying to understand what you’re looking at.

2. Johns Hopkins University.

By far, among the official health institutions, the John Hopkins dashboard is the most complete.
It has a tab for both worldwide tab and United States as well as a critical trends tab, it has a differential with animated graphics. The Cumulative Cases animation shows the total number of cases reported in each country at each point in time, regardless of how many people have recovered. The New Cases animation uses a 5-day moving average, calculated for each day by averaging the values of that day, the two days before, and the two next days. Besides, it has an excellent analysis of mortality among countries that is worth reading with interesting graphics as well.

3. WHO – World Health Organization

WHO has two different graphics. One with data on cases/deaths and others on public emergencies.

The corona chart does not bring many different insights from John Hopkins. But it has a tab called “explorer”. In this area, you can cross-check data to expand your analysis. Explore and cross-check data on Confirmed Cases, Cumulative Cases. Deaths, Cumulative Death, Population.

Below you can see an image of the graph on public emergency. To access the dashboard, click here.

Data Source: World Health Organization (WHO)
Map Production: WHO Health Emergencies Programme
Data as of 16 of April 202

4. The Robert Koch Institute Feat. Esri Germany

Unlike the WHO panel, which has a lighter function, this one has a dark background for those who prefer this tone.

The focus is for Germany but it is worth knowing the available resources. I recently moved to Germany and am learning German but you can use Google Translations (or any other tool of your choice) to browse this data without any major problems.

You can browse a single page and don’t need a scroll, it’s all on one screen. This facilitates your data interpretation and cognition.
Simple and easy to use for laypeople and those that bought “data analysis is for dummies” just log in and you can see the data by region, city or state.

Following the rule of providing context and clarity, users will find a dashboard FAQ by clicking here.

5. Centers for Disease Control Dashboard

It is not the best in terms of usability but CDC, like the other organizations above, is too important for it not to be on this list. It is important that these organizations make data available and work with. What do you think of their chart, how can it be improved?
It is also worth noting that it is exclusively for the USA.

6. The New York Times Dashboard

As always, an excellent example of how the media can make good use of a dashboard. Informative and interactive, it holds the reader’s attention. You can interact with data without even realizing it. This kind of approach is great for demystifying what data is nerdy or that needs logical intelligence. Clean, simple and objective data.

7.Microsoft Bing COVID-19 Dashboard

They did a good job of merging data with making content available.
They made an interesting chart with a core scale for the “Top 10 regions by active cases”. There are several other ways to demonstrate the same content.
The cool part is that all the graphics work for every country you select. And some tabs per city;

8. Criteo

Understanding the Changing Economy: Unlike other dashboards, Criteo brings interesting data about the world economy. Among all the graphs here, this is the most interesting and different. They did not focus on building a dashboard talking about the number of cases confirmed, or fatalities.
They focused on showing data on buying behavior during the crisis and the most interesting thing is that you can filter by country. Super important for those who the business relay on retail.

To help you make the right decisions for your business, we’re committed to sharing the latest trends we see based on data from 20,000 retailers who work with Criteo, and transactions from the Criteo Shopper Graph. Here’s our most up-to-date view into the impact of the social distancing economy around the world.

9. Berliner Morgenpost

The Berliner Morgenpost is a daily newspaper in Berlin (again, looking local!). Like the New York Times, it is interesting to analyze the production of dashboards through communications companies to disseminate information.

Although the home page shows more graphs focusing on the States in Germany, this graph is very easy to navigate.
It also has the option of the whole of Europe and the world.

It has a lower bar where you can watch the numbers develop day after day as you change the bar yourself.

The colors are soft and they build up well which facilitates the visualization of the map.

10.Avi Schiffmann

Compared to the above dashboards this is the simplest but that is exactly what makes it special. Sometimes all we need is this: simple, straightforward data. You can also download it, which is nice if you happen to get outside and offline?!

Oh, this was created by a high schooler in Washington State, USA. I guess we all may need to start stepping up our data visualization skills?!

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