San Francisco, August 11 (IANS) Google, in collaboration with Stanford University, has presented a global map of Covid-19 that seeks to integrate up-to-date pandemic perspectives into its sites for readers.
Unlike other coronavirus case maps, the ‘Covid-19 Global Case Mapper’ allows local reporters to embed a map of their area or even a national case map.
The map of the instances relative to the population.
“It is colored through the number of instances consistent with 100,000 other people in the last 14 days and shows the severity of the epidemic according to the number of other people in position, making it less difficult to compare their apartment position with the overall one. whole, ” said Rogers. Array Data Editor, Google News Lab.
Earlier this year, he introduced an American edition of the map.
The new edition expands this world-wide integrity with knowledge for 176 countries in addition to the United States, as well as more state and regional knowledge for 18 countries.
The team used Google Translate to delight and can be seen in more than 80 languages.
The knowledge comes from the New York Times Covid-19 County Open Dataset and the Covid-19 knowledge repository from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University and is updated daily.
Big Local News and Pitch Interactive from Stanford University have introduced the new global map with the Google News Initiative (GNI).
“More detailed country-level knowledge will be added over time as the map evolves and news experts around the world use it to explain how the pandemic spread,” Rogers said on a Monday.
The total number of international coronavirus cases has surpassed the 20 million mark, while deaths have increased to more than 734,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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