Thread: today winds up operations. No words are enough for what this team of deeply committed volunteers did - for now, I'll just say thank you. There are lessons for the future of data in India, but that's for another day. Now: what happens next to covid data?
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Let me start by saying clearly that in accordance with their visions and wishes, no group is taking over covid19india.org. Some of us have taken advantage of their generous sharing of knowledge and time to build something new. There may be others. I will talk about ours.
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A group of us are working on replicating covid19india.org as closely as possible. This means not just in terms of sources and structure, but also in terms of ethos - volunteer-driven, no-cost, full openness (including of code), transparency, and nothing but covid data.
Over the last several weeks, and volunteers who responded to us here on Twitter have been working on ironing out the back-end. You can start pulling the data from data.covid19bharat.org. I'm repeating my caveat: it is still work in progress.
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On the front-end, a separate team is working on having a public-facing interface that similarly replicates covid19india.org. This should be up in the next week or two hopefully. While data matters to the research community, the website is a public good that people deserve.
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