Corona_stats

Downloads the current statistics regarding covid 19 from the John Hopkins University and transfers them into an Influx database.

Usage

1.Install Influxdb

2.Configure Influx and create database <covid_stats>

3.install script dependecies PyGithub => python3 -m pip install PyGithub influx => python3 -m pip install influxdb progress => python3 -m pip install progress 4.run script once to create default settings fill Settings with values and run Script

The Script now loads available data when executed again. The tables (measurements) and will be created, which contain the Information in a nicer way then the CSV files do the bear in mind, that the data is "raw" and due to some changes in testing methodology around the world and changing storage formats / contents it may need to be cleaned first before you can use it.

Influx works very well with Grafana, which can be used to create visualisations of the data an example dashboard is saved as json.

example image from Grafana dashboard