revolution-package: revolution: Analysis of COVID-19 Data in Germany
In slausmeister/revolution: Analysis of COVID-19 Data in Germany

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The package "revolution" provides various tools of data analysis to inspect the course and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany over the span of more than a year. The package offers the possibility to retrieve the newest data directly from the German federal agency for disease control (RKI). It can be used to look at the trend of infections and deaths throughout the crisis, as well as analyze the circulation of the virus in certain demographic groups and compare the vulnerability to the virus of those groups. Furthermore, it can display the spread of the different virus mutations and the progress of the vaccination campaigns, starting at the end of 2020.

The core functions of the package include get_data_for(), get_sti_series_for(), get_vaccination_data(), variant_case_time_series() and plot_excess_mortality() with their respective plot functions for visualisation.

The functions can roughly be divided into 2 categories: Plot functions, and generators of time series.

Plot functions look at a certain aspact of the COVID-19 pandemic, may it be vaccinations, variants, exess deaths, seven day incidences for different regions, and much more.

Generator functions generate the underlaying data which is to be plotted. These functions are usefull if the user wants to build tools ontop of the data.

The package uses a lot of external data. The main data set is the RKI COVED-19 data API, which can be found under https://npgeo-corona-npgeo-de.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/dd4580c810204019a7b8eb3e0b329dd6_0/about In addition the package draws on vaccination data aquired via https://impfdashboard.de/daten provided by the Paul Ehrlich Institute, and variants of concern data provided by the RKI. Since all these data sets have to be updated to understand the current stage of the pandemic, the package provides an update function for each of these data sets (update_rki_data(),update_vac_data(), and update_voc_data()). Please refere to the documentation of these functions, since especially the RKI data set is rather large.

Other data used in the package includes economic data, as well as mobility data. These are further explained in their respective documentation (of the functions calling on them).

Maintainer: Viktor Stein von Kamienski Stani.Stani@some.domain.net

Authors:

Nico Bruder Nico.Schwester@some.domain.net [translator]
Lucienne-Sophie Marmé Lucy.Marmelade@some.domain.net [copyright holder]
Philipp Hilmar Tepel Hilmar@some.domain.net [thesis advisor]

RKI Data: https://npgeo-corona-npgeo-de.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/dd4580c810204019a7b8eb3e0b329dd6_0/about

Vaccination Data: https://impfdashboard.de/daten

Variants Data: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Daten/VOC_VOI_Tabelle.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile

Every other dataset in this package is not up to date and comes from the "Statistisches Bundesamt" (https://www.destatis.de/DE/Home/_inhalt.html), but was modified to fit our purposes.

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