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NEW: we’re pleased to announce all of our excess deaths data is now public, in CSV format github.com/Financial-Time…

• Data for 24 countries and counting
• Down to regions/cities in many cases
• Includes numbers for Italy through to end of April
We’re not the only ones collecting and publishing this data.

Worth checking out the resources already published by @J_CD_T & co at @TheEconomist (github.com/TheEconomist/c…) and @atmccann & co at @nytimes (github.com/nytimes/covid-…)
We’ve already shared this data directly with academics, but we’re taking the step to make it completely public today so that more people can dig into the numbers, combine with their own datasets etc.
Now for a peak behind-the-scenes:

In some cases the data was easy to come-by, with national statistical bodies like @ONS making timely mortality data readily available.

In others, it was trickier...
Last month Italy’s Social Security Institute published a report on deaths up to the end of April, but did not make the raw data available inps.it/docallegatiNP/…

Undeterred, we traced it out of their PDF report using the brilliant Web Plot Digitizer apps.automeris.io/wpd/
One day I will see some data online and won’t be able to find a way to extract it from the page, but that day is yet to arrive.
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