Colombia Covid 19 Pipe: Daily Case Reports from INS

This data pipeline, developed by sebaxtian in 2020, extracts and processes daily COVID-19 case reports from the Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS) in Colombia. It converts raw government health data into structured formats for time-series tracking of the pandemic's progression during the 2020 period.

Use Cases

• Time-series forecasting of infection rates using daily case counts
• Geographic analysis of COVID-19 spread across Colombian departments
• Historical auditing of early pandemic response data from the INS

Strengths

• Sourced directly from the Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS)
• Includes automated cleaning scripts for CSV generation
• MIT licensed for open redistribution and modification

Limitations

• Temporal staleness as data collection ceased in late 2020
• Lack of detailed column documentation in the source metadata
• Dependent on the continued availability of the INS legacy data endpoints

Provenance

Source

Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS) - Colombia

Collection Method

Automated pipeline and data processing scripts

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated November 2, 2020; does not contain data for the later stages of the pandemic.

Geography

Colombia