Scot_covid19

Update 20 Mar 2020 I have now blogged about the need for better open data from the government in Scotland.

This primarily consists of text files (CSV) containing results of Covid-19 testing in Scotland.

Data

This now sits in a /data directory with subdirectory for raw and processed data.

Data Sources

• The source of data from 06 March to 13 March 2020 is the Internet Wayback Machine.

• From 14 March 2020 the data is sourced directly from the Scottish Government's webpage, and for now is manually added.

• A friend supplied me with data from 24 Jan 2020 to 6th March to fill in gaps.

I am currently looking for an API similar to Public Health England's one to automate updates.

Other data

I've added the Health Board codes from the NHS Scotland Open Data Store and a July 2019 poulation estimate file from NHS Scotland Open Data Store. Both are published under OGL.

Processed data

I've created a Jupyter Notebook, initial_data.ipynb which is used to calculate the 2018 populations of each Health Board, and save that as HB_Populations.csv.

Other resources

I also recommend Tom White's Github repo Covid-19-UK-Data which is broader and more code-driven for now. We may start collaborating / merging these.