dailylog 3-22-20

HAPPY PARTY FUN TIME YAY DISTRACTIONS!!

So, today we became obsessed with COVID19 (ALSO, WHO IS WE!?)

TL;DR: Discovered discrepancies in the WHO reports (via Our World In Data) and decided I needed to do something about it.

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It started with kaggle:

Forecasting week1

Forecasting week1 CALIFORNIA

Then looked at the situation reports from the WHO

WHO sit reps

Side Quest to be impressed by pretty visuals

Pretty visuals

OK Back to data hunting

Reddit

John Hopkins

And their dashboard

More reddit

GITHUB GOOD

Our World in Data

OUR PROJECT BEGINS

1. Check out the reports put out by the WHO and realize OMG they are just simple “this person clearly doesn’t know how to use excel” problems because they are silly subtraction errors
2. Go to scrape the WHO page before realizing I should probably make sure I can actually get tabular data from a pdf or image.
3. Do a few test runs
4. Email Adrian at Pyimage search
5. Discover camelot
6. Profit.

OCR options

** THE STACK OVERFLOW THAT HELPED ME MOST!