This is a very cool investigation. Would you consider doing something similar for the flu in the United States, given that over 40 million people were sick, over 800,000 people were hospitalized, and over 61,000 people died in the 2017-2018 season in the US, according to the CDC? I'm not sure if you can get similarly detailed data for these illnesses, though, for whatever reason.

Thanks!

EDIT: well, this looks dumb now, doesn't it

Lyme disease is spread by deer ticks. It started near Lyme, CT about 30 years ago, and has spread throughout the northeast US. See this EPA publication for a place to start for background & data.

Hi Icy,

The nCov_dataset.wl code is alraedy attached by the a/m nb. code by Jofre Espigule-Pons, Wolfram Research.

Regards,....Jos

Hi @Icy Toc , See attached the nCov_dataset.wl file at the bottom of the post. I've just updated the file to the most recent data obtained from here. In case you want to know how I actually created the dataset from raw data; I basically downloaded their spreadsheets as comma-separated values ".csv" files and then I used SemanticImport to obtain a proper format dataset with data ready for this analysis.

Thank you @Robert Nachbar ! This is very interesting. Recently, I explored the distribution of ticks species in North America using citizen scientists observations. One could combine both datasets to find some correlations. Hope to find some time soon and share it here. :)

Hello! So I used to think I was the only person interested in ecology and conservation biology who used Mathematica. Now there are two of us — we should start a club! But seriously, it's great to have someone promoting this kind of use on the community (and indeed within Wolfram itself). I'll try to make some time to contribute my own posts.

Well, I have a complete Mathematica course in Computational Ecology! Including metapopulation and L-V community ODE systems. Plus some basic epidemiological models and some simple simulations of spread on a network.

Hi @Gareth Russell, it's great to see that power users doing research in such topics do exist. Looking forward to know more about your computational ecology contributions. :)

Just yesterday we published a Wolfram Data Repository resource that makes the data immediately computable: https://datarepository.wolframcloud.com/resources/Novel-Coronavirus

More to come

Hi Douglas,

To import each sheet (one per date) as individual datasets

ImportString[
 URLFetch["https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yZv9w9zRKwrGTaR-YzmAqMefw4wMlaXocejdxZaTs6w/export?format=xlsx"], "Dataset"]

Thanks @Rohit Namjoshi, I was having the same issue that @Douglas Kubler had. Thanks again.

thank you. it's very convenient to import the data from WDR.

in this link [1] not sure, if the second line needs to assign the output to the variable data

data =ResourceData["Epidemic Data for Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV from \
Wuhan, China"]

This is super cool and informative.