Global decision support dashboard of COVID-19 (original) (raw)

In just three months, the deadly virus has spread from China to 210 countries . Social isolation, state and country lockdowns, remote work, and unpreparedness to combat this pandemic have significantly affected each individual, society, economy, health sector, industry, and country . Because the number of victims is increasing daily, an open-source-based decision-support dashboard would be handy for everyone to track COVID-19-related information and make informed decisions. In this regard, the Center for Systems Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has developed a useful real-time dashboard . The map displayed on this dashboard requires selecting an area to see the COVID-19 data, and the rest of the information is provided in tabular text format, which is unintuitive. Also, there is no option to download the dashboard; therefore, the work is not reproducible. Thus, a semi-real-time global dashboard is created using a community version of the business intelligence tool Tableau (version 2020.1). The panel provides the following information on a single screen through maps, graphs, and charts: (a) a comprehensive summary including total cases, total deaths, total recovered cases, active cases, and closed cases across the world; (b) country-level data including total cases, new cases, total deaths, new deaths, total recovered, active cases, serious and critical cases, and the death ratio; (c) the top ten countries most affected by COVID-19 and all caserelated information for these countries; and (d) total cases and deaths in the United States ).