23/03/2022
Nach über 2 Jahren -Zahlen in auf Landkreisebene haben wir als Team beschlossen, dass der 8. März unser letzter Tag für die LK-Zählung sein wird, um uns auf andere Katastrophen zu konzentrieren. Aber das ist nicht das Ende von oder den Zahlen! (1/x). Das wurde auch auf Twitter gepostet:
https://twitter.com/risklayer/status/1499152436896100352?s=20&t=Aw-FHBcmt_FlMRpXY6TKkA…
Aber definitiv kein Abschied, geht weiter, die Katastrophen gehen weiter, und Ihr könnt euch darauf verlassen, dass wir sie weiter analysieren werden.
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After over 2 years of counting the Corona numbers specifically in Germany at the district level, the team has decided that it will be our last day for the district count on March 8th to focus on other catastrophes. But it is not the end of Corona or the count!
The last 2 years have been a journey and the extended team would like to thank first and foremost our families and all of you for the support to do the counting each day and night. Like everything in life, some days are hard, some days less so, but you have also had to spend many hours without us over the last 2 years. (Love)
Nothing about Corona has been normal, but luckily there has been a German and global team of scientists, analysts, politicians, and interested people doing their best to bring new insights, trends and their little part every day.
In the first 15 months, the difference vs. the national statistics was large, both in speed and numbers, but as Omicron has taken over, numbers have become much more uncertain with massive delays, including the hospital numbers. There are still a lot of people providing amazing analysis.
Johannes and I (James) would like to thank our teammates and now lifelong friends (& also family).
To Erich, you have been the backbone of the count. Your scripts, data analysis, open data, ensuring data is correctly analysed, and passion for Germany, and also the many conversations and analysis have been so crucial over the last 2 years. We will catch up many times in the future. Cheers mate!
To Maria (Johannes’ sister/my cousin-in-law), you are amazing! You have been there nearly right from the start every night! Maria comes home from study (and now work) to do the numbers. While Johannes and I come from the disaster/science sphere, Maria is an awesome carpenter… probably why she is so good at numbers! Thank you!
To Henning, thank you as well for the countless contributions to the effort especially on the primary checks and for being there wave after wave. Thanks!
To the Tagesspiegel crew for always having at least 1 person there for a couple of hours of checks…awesome! Especially and Yannik for always putting in a couple of hours each day for checks, as well as the whole extended team (Hendrik, David, Eric, Nina).
Most importantly, the Tagesspiegel data crew will continue the Risklayer district level Germany count from March 8th using the same methods, scripts, and they have been involved since late March 2020, so very sure they will continue it well! We will continue to report where needed at the district level.
To CEDIM at , it has been a long journey, and along the way we had the most costly and deadly floods in many years here in Germany, among other disasters. As always, we will continue to help Germany together however we can in disaster research.
To Andreas, thank you for the constant support on the side of the Risklayer Explorer, and various discussions and coding. Thanks! To Trevor and Bijan, thanks for posting the numbers on Facebook daily, and To Klaus-T for always checking the North-East is covered.
We have had various people help for some dedicated months along the way, who were crucial to ensuring that we could save a few hours daily, and keep going! , Tatogga, Tommy, , MJ, Fritz, Heiko, Gsoy.
All the countless supporters for the keeping us caffeinated as well as for those beers at the end of a long week, this has been very much appreciated, and of course the great comments along the way.
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We are lucky to be interacting daily, and will still keep you updated on this channel. We will still be covering Corona on various levels, and will look to providing some global analysis again and other metrics. We will continue to ride the waves with you.
After cleaning the datasets we will publish updated versons as open data, and scrapers and other datasets have been posted along the way. You can find these here: https://github.com/risklayer/corona-landkreis-crawler
Of course, we will continue the regional European data counts among other new datasets. We are hoping that we can focus further on providing natural catastrophe insights, as well as analysis on emerging global problems.
We have covered disasters 24/7 since 2009 and we are planning to expand our work in this sphere to bring new open and transparent data. Where there is a key dataset missing, analysis missing, we will attempt to help. And of course in the next German disaster, we will be there with the team of universities, companies, NGOs and citizen scientists to help.
Bots and scripts associated with the daily counting of the Risklayer-Crowdsourcing Initiative from March 2020 onwards - GitHub - risklayer/corona-landkreis-crawler: Bots and scripts associated with...
