Covid-19 in Saudi Arabia: A Pandemic Data Descriptive Analysis and Visualization
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Sanaa Ghouzali, Sahar Bayoumi, Souad Larabi-Marie-Sainte, Sara ShaheenAuthors Info & Claims
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At the end of 2019, humans have been contracted by a new coronavirus, known as Covid-19, that caused a pneumonia outbreak in the Wuhan city in China. As this virus expanded globally outside China, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak as a global pandemic in March 2020. The paper aims to investigate the severity of the outbreak in different regions of Saudi Arabia and the impact of the lockdown through data visualization of different epidemiological metrics of Covid-19, such as the spread growth rate and the case fatality rate. The Data Visualization of the pandemic spread, and fatality was provided with Tableau using the real-time data.
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ArabWIC 2021: The 7th Annual International Conference on Arab Women in Computing in Conjunction with the 2nd Forum of Women in Research, Sharjah, UAE
August 25 - 26, 2021
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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