COVID-19 Data Lake: Global Case Tracking, Hospital Data, and Research Articles

A global repository of curated datasets related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID -19 illness. The data lake includes case tracking data from Johns Hopkins and The New York Times, hospital bed availability from Definitive Healthcare, and over 45,000 research articles from the Allen Institute for AI. It is hosted on AWS and maintained by Amazon Web Services with partners.

Use Cases

• Modeling disease transmission dynamics based on case tracking data.
• Analyzing healthcare system capacity based on hospital bed availability data.
• Conducting literature reviews or NLP analysis based on the corpus of over 45,000 research articles.
• Tracking the geographic spread of COVID-19 based on case data.

Strengths

• Includes over 45,000 research articles from the Allen Institute for AI.
• Aggregates data from multiple authoritative sources like Johns Hopkins and The New York Times.
• Described as a centralized, curated, and up-to-date repository.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• License varies by dataset, requiring individual verification.

Provenance

Source

Amazon Web Services, with data from Johns Hopkins, The New York Times, Definitive Healthcare, and the Allen Institute for AI.

Collection Method

Curated aggregation from partner sources.

Time Range

Likely covers the COVID-19 pandemic period, but specific range is unknown.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Global