Bing COVID-19

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Bing COVID-19 data includes confirmed, fatal, and recovered cases from all regions, updated daily. The Bing COVID-19 Tracker reflects this data.

Bing collects data from multiple trusted, reliable sources, including:

Note

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This dataset is provided under the original terms that Microsoft received source data. The dataset may include data sourced from Microsoft.

Datasets

Modified Bing COVID-19 datasets are available in CSV, JSON, JSON-Lines, and Parquet:

All modified datasets have ISO 3166 subdivision codes and load times added. They use lower case column names with underscore separators.

CSV-format raw data

Earlier versions of modified and raw data are available at this resource.

Data volume

All datasets receive daily updates. As of March 5, 2023 they contained 4,766,737 rows. The dataset is available in these file formats:

  • CSV (560.3 MB)
  • JSON (1515.6 MB)
  • JSONL (1506.2 MB)
  • Parquet (55.4 MB)

License and use rights attribution

The data is available strictly for educational and academic purposes under these terms and conditions. Valid purposes include:

  • academic institutions
  • government agencies
  • medical research

Data used or cited in publications should include an attribution to ‘Bing COVID-19 Tracker’, with a link to www.bing.com/covid.

Contact

For any questions or feedback about this or other datasets in the COVID-19 Data Lake contact askcovid19dl@microsoft.com.

Columns

Name Data type Unique Values (sample) Description
admin_region_1 string 864 Texas Georgia Region within country_region
admin_region_2 string 3,143 Washington County Jefferson County Region within admin_region_1
confirmed int 120,692 1 2 Confirmed case count for the region
confirmed_change int 12,120 1 2 Change of confirmed case count from the previous day
country_region string 237 United States India Country/region
deaths int 20,616 1 2 Death case count for the region
deaths_change smallint 1,981 1 2 Change of death count from the previous day
id int 1,783,534 742546 69019298 Unique identifier
iso_subdivision string 484 US-TX US-GA Two-part ISO subdivision code
iso2 string 226 US IN 2 letter country code identifier
iso3 string 226 USA IND 3 letter country code identifier
latitude double 5,675 42.28708 19.59852 Latitude of the centroid of the region
load_time timestamp 1 2021-04-26 00:06:34.719000 The date and time the file was loaded from the Bing source on GitHub
longitude double 5,693 -2.5396 -155.5186 Longitude of the centroid of the region
recovered int 73,287 1 2 Recovered count for the region
recovered_change int 10,441 1 2 Change of recovered case count from the previous day
updated date 457 2021-04-23 2021-04-22 The as at date for the record

Preview

id updated confirmed deaths iso2 iso3 country_region admin_region_1 iso_subdivision admin_region_2 load_time confirmed_change deaths_change
338995 2020-01-21 262 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM
338996 2020-01-22 313 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 51 0
338997 2020-01-23 578 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 265 0
338998 2020-01-24 841 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 263 0
338999 2020-01-25 1320 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 479 0
339000 2020-01-26 2014 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 694 0
339001 2020-01-27 2798 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 784 0
339002 2020-01-28 4593 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 1795 0
339003 2020-01-29 6065 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 1472 0
339004 2020-01-30 7818 0 null null Worldwide null null null 4/26/2021 12:06:34 AM 1753 0

Data access - Azure Notebooks

Note

This notebook documents the URLs and sample code to access the Bing COVID-19 Dataset.

Use these URLs to get specific file formats hosted on Azure Blob Storage:

Download the dataset file using the built-in capability of Pandas to download from an HTTP URL. Pandas has readers for various file formats:

pandas.read_parquet

pandas.read_csv

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

df = pd.read_parquet("https://pandemicdatalake.blob.core.windows.net/public/curated/covid-19/bing_covid-19_data/latest/bing_covid-19_data.parquet")
df.head(10)

To verify that the updated column has a datetime format, check the data types of the various fields:

df.dtypes

Review the Worldwide data. To visualize the data, build some charts:

df_Worldwide=df[df['country_region']=='Worldwide']

df_Worldwide_pivot=df_Worldwide.pivot_table(df_Worldwide, index=['country_region','updated'])

df_Worldwide_pivot

df_Worldwide.plot(kind='line',x='updated',y="confirmed",grid=True)
df_Worldwide.plot(kind='line',x='updated',y="deaths",grid=True)
df_Worldwide.plot(kind='line',x='updated',y="confirmed_change",grid=True)
df_Worldwide.plot(kind='line',x='updated',y="deaths_change",grid=True)

Data Access - Azure Databricks

A sample isn't available for this platform / package combination.

Data Access - Azure Synapse

A sample isn't available for this platform / package combination.

Next steps

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