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While we’re at it, here are three blocks of #rstats code to:
1) Scrape data on number of Coronavirus cases by day
2) Do the same for cases by day for SARS in 2003
3) Plot them both and export the image
gist.github.com/johnburnmurdoc…
#covid19 #coronavirus #ggplot Image
1) Scrape a table of cumulative Coronavirus cases by day Image
2) Scrape 99 horribly formatted and inconsistent pages of SARS cases from the World Health Organisation 🤓🤕🤮 Image
3) Join them and plot them (see the full script linked in my first tweet for the custom plot styles) Image
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