Actionable Information – Research Briefs – 2 – U.S.and Mexico COVID-19 Dashboards

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Alvarado, J., Allen, A., Medina-Cetina, Z., Pompelli, G., Cochran, M. & Z-Losoya, E. (2021). Actionable Information – Research Briefs – 2 – U.S. and Mexico COVID-19 Dashboards. https://r7-cbts-sgl.engr.tamu.edu/actionable-information-research-briefs-2-u-s-and-mexico-covid-19-dashboards/

@misc{Alvarado2021a,
   author = {Alvarado, Juan Pablo and Allen, Alexi and Medina-Cetina, Zenon and Pompelli, Gregory and Cochran, Matthew and Z-Losoya, Enrique},
   title = {Actionable Information - Research Briefs - 2 - U.S. and Mexico COVID-19 Dashboards},
   url={https://r7-cbts-sgl.engr.tamu.edu/actionable-information-research-briefs-2-u-s-and-mexico-covid-19-dashboards/},
   year={2021},
   month={April}
}

During the COVID-19 pandemic, national and international organizations have developed interactive dashboards and platforms to present information related to COVID-19 spread and data on the management of the pandemic. The information presented in the dashboard (or dashboards) falls inside recurrent themes such as confirmed cases, fatalities, statistics on testing and vaccination, and the availability of health services and infrastructure. Data is presented in the form of time-series plots, pie charts, or even maps, according to the characteristics of the variables being communicated (Max Roser & Hasell, 2020), (Dong et al., 2020), (COVID Data Tracker, 2020).

The objective of this research brief is twofold, first to present a consolidated list of URLs for the location of state dashboards in the U.S. and Mexico, and second to assess the amount of information presented through the count of the number of variables included in the dashboards. Dashboards and platforms included in this analysis correspond to those developed by official entities of each state, both in the U.S. and Mexico. As such, national dashboards, or platforms developed by Universities or companies are not included in this research brief.

US Dashboards

The Fig. 1 shows the number of different variables that are included in the dashboards for each state. Also, by clicking a particular state, a popup window will appear with the links to the different dashboards. Table 1 includes all the URLS for the 50 states.

Mexico Dashboards

The Fig. 2 shows the number of different variables that are included in the different dashboards for each state. Also, by clicking a particular state, a popup window will appear with the links to the different dashboards. Table tbl. 2 includes all the URLS for the 50 states.

For the case of Mexico, the fact that some of the states don’t have an official state dashboard doesn’t mean that information about the COVID-19 pandemic, and its management, is not being communicated. The lack of information in the previous figure is indicating that, for a particular state, the information is not being presented through an interactive dashboard, but it could be communicated through daily or weekly reports. The analysis of non-interactive reports is beyond the scope of this research brief.

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