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#77: Power BI report with ArcGIS map: "COVID-19 in USA"

This post is about a new Power BI report I made: "COVID-19 in USA", see FIG.1.

FIG.1: Power BI report COVID-19 in USA with (animated) ArcGIS map

In this report I used the ESRI ArcGIS map. I used this map also in my previous post, but this time I wanted to experiment with a nice feature of the ArcGIS map: animation of time-series. The dataset I used for this is open data from the New York Times:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/master/us-states.csv

NB: for more details about this NYT COVID-19 data, see e.g.:
https://developer.nytimes.com/covid
https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html

The dateset's oldest data is from Feb.2020 and it is updated daily.
I have limited the number of data-points by filtering only the first day of the month. See FIG.2 for the Power Query I used for this:

FIG.2: NYT Dataset and applied transformations (in Power Query)

As a reference-layer for the map I used demographic data, e.g. US Median Age. And I also added an infographic with this data (median age), and also for the total population.

I made this video with the animated map and how to interact with it in Power BI, e.g by filtering by dimensions location (state) and time (year/month):

https://youtu.be/se5pLNCdo0M

NB: I used this nice free tool https://www.screencastify.com/ to make this screencast.

My Power BI report also has a time-slicer, so you could check e.g. : 'what was the total number of COVID-19 cases in 2020 (at 1/1/2021)', see FIG.3 (which also includes a screenshot of this site: https://datausa.io/coronavirus, which I used to check the numbers in my report)

FIG.3: total COVID-19 cases in USA in 2020

To know more about how ESRI ArcGIS maps are used in this pandemic, I can really recommend this video of ESRI:

COVID-19 & Crisis Management - A GIS Approach

And for a another nice video of ESRI in which they show how AI (Machine Learning) can be used to do COVID-19 predictions, see:

Modeling COVID-19 in ArcGIS

In this video, they say:

It has been amazing to watch how the GIS-community has done an amazing work in the COVID-19 response, from data collection, modelling and data-visualization..

I've also seen great initiatives in the Netherlands about which I wrote in earlier blog-posts, e.g.:

- data collection:

CoronaWatchNL - open COVID-19 data of Netherland, by Jonathan de Bruin of Utrecht University

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/covid-19-eu
by Vyacheslav Tykhonov #4tikhonov

- dashboard:

ESRI Nederland COVID-19 dashboard with ArcGIS map