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Project Plan: Analysis of The Global Pandemic: COVID - 19 in The U.S
Project Plan: Analysis of The Global Pandemic: COVID - 19 in The U.S
Submitted by : Team 2
Rakshit Varma, Aviral Sahu and Parag Pise
Introduction
COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, China and has spread to
more than 200 countries. WHO declared COVID-19 as a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020. Naturally, a
rising infectious disease involves fast spreading, endangering the health
of large numbers of people, and thus requires immediate actions to prevent
the disease at the community level.
The virus has been observed to have an exponential trend and grows through
multiple transition stages. The current COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented,
but the global response draws on the lessons learned from other disease
outbreaks over the past several decades.
According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering,
as of July 8, 2020, there have been over 11.8 million confirmed cases of
COVID-19 and 544,949 deaths worldwide – but these numbers are still
growing steadily. Globally, the confirmed case fatality rate is above 5 percent
– that is, one in every 20 people with a confirmed positive COVID-19 test has
died of the disease.
The project aims to track and visualize the impact of COVID-19 in the
different states of the U.S. overtime. The focus is on how the virus has spread
over time and what severely affected states can and should do to control the
massive spread of virus.
The project aims to analyse the impact of corona virus outbreak in the U.S.
and provide strategic ways to curb the rapid expanse of the virus. A
breakdown of the daily update in total number of cases, deaths and recoveries
is to be observed and the rate of change in daily situation will be analysed.
Lastly, the insights obtained will be transformed into recommendations
backed by data for controlling the outbreak.
Goals/Objectives
The project covers the following basic outlines and delves further into the
data to identify patterns in the data :
PHASE 1 :
Identifying the key attributes, looking for missing values and data anomalies.
Profiling the data collected and summarizing key information obtained.
PHASE 2 :
Aggregating the numbers for different states, analyzing the daily and monthly
trend, observing the states which have been the least and most affected
during the time period. Identifying the rate of increment in different states,
considering the number of cases with respect to the population of the state,
analyzing the information and predicting the case for the upcoming month.
PHASE 3 : Singling out the differences in the adopted strategies for different
states, deriving optimal strategies from states that have been successful in
curbing the expansion of the virus. Presenting the results and
recommendations.
5 Results and
1 Data Key
Collection Strategies
Gathering relevant data
Derive strategic insights to
from different sources
tackle the outbreak in the
worst hit states.
2 Data
Preparation
Removing anomalies in the
collected data and
transforming it for analysis.
3 Data
Analysis
Observing the spread of
virus in different states
over different months
4 Data
Visualization
Reporting insights in a
visually apppealing format