Public health

Pathology

Sociology

Data center

Data visualization

Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Dashboard

Social science

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Operating system

Data mining

Data collection

Nursing

Alternative medicine

Data science

Data sharing

Visualization

Computer science

Global health

Process (computing)

Medicine

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

On Jan 22, 2020, a day after the USA reported its first COVID-19 case, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE) launched the first global real-time coronavirus surveillance system: the JHU CSSE COVID-19 Dashboard. As of June 1, 2022, the dashboard has served the global audience for more than 30 consecutive months, totalling over 226 billion feature layer requests and 3·6 billion page views. The highest daily record was set on March 29, 2020, with more than 4·6 billion requests and over 69 million views.

The Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering COVID-19 Dashboard: data collection process, challenges faced, and lessons learned