COVID-19 Digital Observatory

This project page is currently under construction.

Microscopy image of the virus which causes COVID-19.

This page documents work on a project to create a digital observatory that seeks to collect, aggregate, and document public social data from digital communication platforms in relation to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic . This project is being coordinated by the Community Data Science Collective and Pushshift.

As our society struggles to make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are turning to social media to share information, to understand what's happening, and to find new ways to support one another. Our work is dedicated to tracing and surfacing where and how people are talking about COVID-19-related topics. The observatory collects, aggregates, and distributes social data related to how people are responding to the ongoing public health crisis of COVID-19. The public datasets and freely licensed tools, techniques, and knowledge created through this project will allow researchers, practitioners, and public health officials to more efficiently gather, analyze, understand, and act to improve these crucial sources of information during crises.

Learn More

(coming soon)

Access Data

(coming soon)

Our initial data releases from this project will be offered as a minimum starting place. Our goal over time is to expand this project to include more sources of data (including international/non-English information) and searches from more keywords, all delivered more quickly.

Get Help Using Data

(coming soon)

Our project plan includes developing tutorials and demos for the use of the data we release.

Join In

We are eager for collaborators -- we work openly. Want to contribute to this wiki? Request an account and be bold! Want to contribute to our analysis code? Clone our github repository and pitch in with pull requests.

Keep In Touch

We will be building out our communication channels over time. If you'd like to receive a copy of any announcements, you can subscribe to our announcement mailing list. You can subscribe on the list website or by emailing covid19-announce-request@communitydata.science wtih the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes). You will get back a message with instructions.

Code of Conduct

We ask that all contributors adhere to the Contributor Covenant.