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Coding Updates



July 23, 2023



Coding Update



🌽🌽 Data Integration Sheets.

Check out our data integration sheets guide.

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June 18, 2023



Taxonomy Update



🌽🌽 Spring 2023 Progress Report

Check out our spring progress report to get the lo-down on what we’ve accomplished this spring, to summarise, a lot! Thanks to everyone for all their hard work in helping.

Spring 2023 Project Status Report

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October 30, 2022



Coding Update



📢📢 Fall Goals Progress 📢📢

Check out our fall goals progress.

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September 27, 2022



Coding Update



🌽🌽 Data Integration Coding Hour

We will be hosting a Data Integration Coding Hour September 29, 2022 at 11 AM CEST and would be very happy to see many of you there!

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August 12, 2022



Taxonomy Update



🌽🌽 Spring 2022 Progress Report

Check out our spring progress report to get the lo-down on what we’ve accomplished this spring, to summarise, a lot! Thanks to everyone for all their hard work in helping provide the world with a more complete picture of government responses to the pandemic, each time you record a policy, you’re creating a historical record for generations to come to understand what the hell happened here, great job you guys.

Summer 2022 Project Status Report

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July 01, 2022



Coding Update



🌽🌽 New guidance for external border restrictions/quarantines.

We have some additional guidance which we hope will be helpful for people coding external border restrictions and quarantines on the border. Here we provide more examples of how to code border related policies ; there are also examples of policies that are similar to border restrictions but should be coded under different policies ---> since these don't come up that often, we outline them here to help you figure what to do in case you do come across them. Hope you find them helpful and please feel free to ask questions if you're confused!

Access here!.

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May 20, 2022



Taxonomy Update



🌽🌽 The Spring progress report is finally here!!!

Check out our spring progress report to get the lo-down on what we’ve accomplished this spring, to summarise: a lot! The big takeaway for me is that the more policies we look for, the more we seem to find but you’ve all done an amazing job of actually putting in the work to document them. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work in helping provide the world with a more complete picture of government responses to the pandemic, each time you record a policy, you’re creating a historical record for generations to come to understand what the hell happened here, great job you guys.

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Apr 27, 2022



Taxonomy Update



🌽🌽 Overlap assessments GUIDE!!

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Apr 22, 2022



Taxonomy Update



🌽🌽 NEW PROJECT Tools!!

Coding border policies are probably one of the hardest things to do for the dataset. We hope that this new visualization tool that @H.P. helped perfect can help RAs track the timing and target countries of external border restrictions and quarantine policies coded in the dataset. Feel free to use this tool to try and help yourself identify miscodings in external border policies or quarantine policies for your region.

Access here!.

We also know that there is just a lot to keep track of on the project. Now both the dashbaord and the printed version of the survey come with search bars to hopefully help make it a bit easier to find what you’re looking for. The more people use it, the better the searches will be.

Access the sterchbar directly on the top left of this dashboard.

Missing End Dates Task Force

We’re finally ready to announce that the missing end dates task force will start meeting on Mondays from 2-4pm CEST to code missing end dates! Super excited to have @Marco Waldbauer leading this effort with @Xiatian Ye @Muneeba @ali kahraman @Berk Öksüz @Tom Wiederkehr and @Simon Jenke rounding out the team. Everyone is free to drop in to join the task force in the Community Hang Out Room whenever they have time, and if you’re interested in joining the task force itself, just ping @Marco Waldbauer! Once we get this missing end dates issue fixed, we’ll have a much better basis for evaluating the effects of different policies!

Access here!.

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March 21, 2022



Resource update



🌽🌽 The CornEdit App is finally here!!!

Big shout out 👏👏 to @Bob Kubinec for pushing this through and especially to @Konstanze Schönfeld 江 真帆 for helping us identify bugs!

What is CornEdit? 👉 Allows you to make simple corrections more quickly! (complicated ones will still need to be done on qualtrics).

How do I access CorneEdit? 👉 Access here!. Contact @Santiago in the #shinyapp-cornedit channel if you have issues with access

How do I use CornEdit? 👉 We have two New videos 1! explaining how to use it in general and 2! how to use it for cleaning end dates in particular → thanks Konstanze!

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March 21, 2022



Taxonomy update



📢📢 New Taxonomy Changes 📢📢

We are doing taxonomy changes increasingly sparingly but sometimes people bring things to our attention that we just can’t ignore. Lets see if this is the last round of taxonomy changes, we really hope so! The new changes are summarized below and if you want to see more details.

  • New question allows you to capture whether quarantines can be shortened or not.
  • New text entry option for delivery/takeaways.
  • travel_mechanism and target_direction questions no longer shown if the policy type is ‘Declaration of Emergency’, ‘Curfew’, ‘Lockdown’ or ‘New Task Force’.

    • For more detail, please see the Taxonomy File. 📌

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    December 15, 2021



    Taxonomy update



    Based on what governments have been doing to deal with the pandemic and many of your guys’ feedback (Big thanks specially @Konstanze Schönfeld, @anke horn, @Tasia, and @Christine Galvagna 👏👏👏👏) we’ve made changes to the taxonomy, which are mainly related to addressing those cases related to the vaccination process, as well as in other categories.

    For more detail, please see this document which outlines what this means for you.

    Note 🎯 the changes made to the main survey, validation survey, printed version of the survey, policy sub-type expansion sheet, data availability sheet, data collection guidelines and codebook

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    November 29, 2021



    Resource update




    @Caress Schenk has made an amazing 📣📣 video! 📣📣 to help walk you guys through how to fill out the RA Internal Survey survey, which along with the Well Being Survey, we are asking you to submit by December 1st.🚀

    If you’re having trouble with the RA internal survey, you can fill it out the by following along with the video! and learn how to leave us snarky comments.

    Big thanks @Caress Schenk for your amazing work!!!👏👏👏



    November 03, 2021



    Resource update




    Finally we have completed the initial stage of the data integration process with other policy trackers, e.g. ACAPS, CIHI, COVIDAMP, John Hopkins HIT-COVID data, OxCGRT, and WHO PHSMs. By integrating this data we can maximize the completeness of our dataset and help other datasets continue to live on in our dataset.

    ⚠ Note: Data integration is assessing the overlap between data external to CoronaNet and recoding data that is currently missing from CoronaNet into the CoronaNet taxonomy, while giving proper attribution to the original coders.



    November 03, 2021



    Resource update



    We’re super excited about the New Tableau Visualizations: Don’t forget to check out this New Video New Video on how to use Tableau Visualizations to explore all the potential functionalities. Thanks @Rohan Bhavikatti! for make this possible!!!

    This Tableau dashboard helps to keep track of the overall project’s progress by:

    • Displaying a world map which shows the number of polices coded by each country.
    • Coding rate of the project.
    • Number of policies coded by countries.
    • End dates & updates.



    October 25, 2021



    Resource update



    We have released a new Automated Data Quality Check Sheet in which we try to find issues/errors in the data (e.g. the end date is before the start date) and flag them to you.

    Check out the ‘sheet_description’ column for a description of what the issue is, and the relevant tab to see if it might affect your country.



    August 4, 2021



    Resource update



    Wondering whether a policy you are about to code is already in the dataset? In order to make it easier for you to keep track of more than 80,000 policies, we are happy to announce a new tool - the Duplicate Detector! Hopefully, this automated first check will help you in your coding and prevent duplicates in the future.

    Big thanks to Abdul Ali Khan for taking the initiative and building something so user friendly!



    July 27, 2021



    Resource update



    Wondering about the different policy types and their sub-types? In order to make it easier for you guys to sort through the different policy types, information on the policy sub-types can now be found in the Coding Guide. Hopefully this will make it a lot easier for you to quickly figure out the different options when coding.

    Big thanks to Isaac Bravo for his amazing work with this!!



    July 05, 2021



    Resource update



    Confused about health testing and health monitoring policies? Check out this updated video and two new slides on what is NOT health testing and health monitoring in the coding guide by Natalia Filkina-Spreizer and Sarah Edmonds for guidance!



    July 05, 2021



    Taxonomy update



    Based on what governments have been doing to deal with the pandemic and many of your guys’ feedback we’ve made a couple of small changes to the taxonomy in particular with respect to:

    • Restrictions of Mass Gathering [type_mass_var] can now capture Single/All Recreational or commercial event allowed to occur with conditions
    • COVID-19 Vaccines [type_vac_cat] now provide the options Covishield (Indian-made version of AstraZeneca Serum Institute India), EpiVacCorona (EpiVakKorona; VECTOR center of virology), Unspecified Vaccines and All Vaccines
    • We’ve added ‘Negative COVID-19 tests’ as an option for External Border Restrictions [type_ext_restrict], Closure and Regulation of Schools [type_school_var], Restrictions and Regulations of Businesses [type_business_var], Restrictions and Regulations of government services [type_gov_var] and Restrictions of Mass Gatherings [type_mass_var]
    • Internal Border Restrictions [type_int_restrict] now gets its own sub type which mirrors the External Border Restrictions subtype!
    • Closure and Regulation of Schools [type_school_var] now has the options Full remote/distance learning and Partial remote/distance learning

    For more detail, please see this document which outlines what this means for you.



    June 10, 2021



    Resource update



    Want to meet other people on this project and learn what to do when governments are implementing crazy things? We’re excited to announce project-wide Coding hours for the next two months! You can refer to this link for a google docs spreadsheet of the schedule. We hope having some project-wide coding hours will help us continue to learn and grow together and double thanks to all the RAs who have volunteered to host!



    May 26, 2021



    Resource update



    Unsure how to code a policy? @Joseph (Kwan Bo) Shim has created a great new tool that provides a model-based best ‘guess’ of a policy based on the policy description. These model-based predictions will continue to improve i) based on your feedback (reach out to Joseph or Cindy!) and ii) as the overall data becomes cleaner and cleaner. We hope this can be an additional resource to asking your fellow RAs, regional/country managers, #ra-chat etc. on your way to taxonomy mastery!



    May 14, 2021



    Resource update



    Confused about the difference between an external and internal border restriction? Check out this great short video by Natalia Filkina-Spreizer and Sarah Edmonds which explains when to code one or the other!



    May 14, 2021



    Resource update



    The CoronaNet RA Onboarding Guide provides a comprehensive overview of different parts of the project for new (and seasoned) RAs, spearheaded by Vanessa Zwisele.



    May 14, 2021



    Resource update



    The CoronaNet Low State Capacity Guidelines provides a guideliens for RAs who find it difficult to find official sources in a given country because they just don’t seem to exist (including e.g. either on Overton Raw Sources Sheet or the Jataware/Starsift Raw Sources or on a given government’s official websites) due to low bureacratic governmental capacity.



    May 5, 2021



    Resource update



    The CoronaNet ‘Other’ Policy Type Potential Miscodings sheet identifies potential policies that have been miscoded as an ‘other’ policy type.

    • @Joseph (Kwan Bo) Shim and @Irene N. Chang have created models which try to identify which policies are lilkely miscoded as well as what their best guess and second best guess for what the correct policy type should be. There are around 1000 policies that the model ‘guesses’ are miscoded

    • If each RA could take a look for your country and (i) provide feedback as to how well the models do in guessing a more appropriate policy type and (ii) correct the policy for your country as needed, that would be amazing —> this will help us refine our models to identify miscodings more generally and provide further feedback to you all!



    April 20, 2021



    Taxonomy update



    Based on many of your guys’ feedback we’ve made a couple of small changes to the taxonomy in particular with respect to:

    • Delivery/takeaway options are now available for Bars, Retail Stores, Supermarkets/grocery stores, Pharmacies and Personal Grooming
    • There is now a text entry for ‘Retail Businesses’
    • There is now an explicit button to code when nursing homes are closed or when patients are restricted from leaving nursing homes in the Social Distancing type!
    • We’ve added options to capture suspensions and resumptions of COVID-19 rollouts
    • There are now options in target_who_gen for capturing whether a policy targets people with natural immunity, are fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated or not vaccinated against COVID-19 which are particularly important to capture for more recent policy actions.

    For more detail, please see this documment which outlines what we’ve changed in more detail.



    March 29, 2021



    Resource update



    Check out this google sheet which identifies what policies likely need to be recoded because of changes to the taxonomy for how to deal with visiting nursing homes, hospitals, prisons and cemeteries

    These policies were flagged as likely needing recoding if:

    • the policy description contains the word ‘visit’ or words related to nursing homes, hospitals, prisons or cemeteries in the description and if the policy was entered before March 19 (when the taxonomy change took place)

    Obviously this is not fool proof :

    • False positives: if there is a policy that is not about visiting nursing homes, hospitals, prisons or cemeteries, please put a ‘1’ in the column “This policy is not about visiting nursing homes, hospitals, prisons or cemeteries” (column M) and Cindy will remove it from the list.
    • False negatives: It is certainly possible that there are some policies that deal with visiting nursing homes, hospitals, prisons or cemeteries that do not actually have the words ‘visit’ or ‘nursing homes’, ‘hospitals’, ‘prisons’ or ‘cemeteries’ in their description. If people encounter policies that are not on the sheet that should be, please reach out to Cindy!

    In general Cindy will update this sheet about once a week so you can track your progress.



    March 19, 2021



    Taxonomy update



    We have made some changes to the taxonomy which reflect both feedback that we’ve gotten from many of you as well as the changing nature of the pandemic. In many cases, you guys were already coding many of these categories but there wasn’t clear guidance or buttons for you to click — we hope that these changes will get rid of these gray areas!

    In particular we have made changes to better capture:

    • Policies that deal with visiting people
    • Policies that deal with weddings and funerals
    • Policies that deal with restrictions of mass gatherings that are allowed to occur with conditions
    • Policies that deal with elections
    • Policies that deal with takeaway and delivery in restaurants
    • Policies that deal with Public Awareness Measures for COVID-19 Vaccines

    For more detail, please see this documment which outlines what we’ve changed and what this means for you in more detail.



    March 19, 2021



    Resource Announcement



    Get involved in the missing end dates competition! Co-PI Caress Schenk has made a great short video to explain how to get started and you can find the missing end dates for your country here! You can also find additional information in the ‘How do I code end dates’ section in the coding guide and dashboard!



    March 16, 2021



    Taxonomy update We’ve made a small change for how to input subnational geographical targets.



    Many of you have found it onerous to input in the target geographical regions when a country targets the entire country for many countries and subnational regions for some countries at the same time. E.g. country X might implement a travel restriction against 100 countries for the whole country as well as Lombardy and Wuhan in particular – travel is still allowed for the rest of China/Italy.

    What we changed: After you choose the option: “One or more geographical or administrative units within one or more countries” in response to the ‘target_geog_level’ question, you now get one follow up question which asks you to choose whether:

    • This policy targets both entire countries and subnational targets for some countries
    • This policy only has subnational targets

    If you choose that ‘This policy targets both entire countries and subnational targets for some countries’ , then you can for example select the 100 countries for which the policy targets the entire country first, and then the 2 countries (China and Italy) for which the policy only targets subnational regions in a second question.

    How this affects you: Hopefully it is easier to input in policies when the target is both the entire country and subnational targets for some countries.



    March 10, 2021



    Coding goals



    You’re already up to date for your country by October 1st for March 1st — great!

    • You can either then start getting your data ready until Feb 1st by June 1st or
    • You can check in with your regional/country manager to see if they need help to get other countries in the region up to date until October 1st. Still working on the October 1st by march 1st deadline? — No worries
    • Keep at it and ask for help if you need it. Once you get there, let your RM/CM know and then switch up to the goals above. 

    As you’re working towards the above goals, please continue follow the priority groups for policy types which are listed on the main dashbaord (e.g. group 1 is Lockdown, Curfew and Quarantine)



    February 18, 2021



    Taxonomy update : We’ve added a couple of small questions to the curfew and restrictions of mass gatherings.



    For Curfews

    • What we changed: We’ve noticed that some countries have different curfew times depending on the day of the week (e.g. you can’t go out after 9pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays but you can on the other days of the week). To capture this, we’ve added two new question: type_curfew_freq which asks you to record whether curfew times do in fact differ depending on the day of the week or not and type_curfew_day which allows you to capture the days and time of the curfew if in fact they are different. See the printed survey under the [type_sub_cat] policy for ‘Curfew’ for more info.

    • How this affects you: Note that for previous curfew policies that you coded which did not depend on the day of the week, the [type_curfew_freq] question will be filled automatically, so no need to worry about backcoding this! If you previously coded a policy for which the curfew times did differ depending on the day of the week, then you should ‘correct’ this policy given these new questions.

    For restrictions of mass gatherings:

    • What we changed: We’ve added a new question that notes whether the mass gathering is for indoor, outdoor, both or not specified if the sub type is ‘All/Unspecified mass gatherings’. See the printed survey under the [type_sub_cat] policy for ‘Restrictions of Mass Gathering’ for more info.
    • How this affects you: It would be great if you could backcode these policies to capture this distinction, unfortunately there is no way to automate this, but no worries about this counting for getting the data clean and complete up to October 1st.



    February 3, 2021



    Resource Announcement



    Finding it difficult/confusing to clean/sort through a policy history? Natalia Filkina-Spreizer and Sarah Edmonds have done a really awesome job making a new video which goes through examples of how to check if a policy history is clean and Nathan Ruhde has written some fantastic textual guidance as well. You can also find these resources in the coding guide and dashboard!



    January 31, 2021



    Resource Announcement



    Natalia Filkina-Spreizer and Sarah Edmonds have done a great job of making a couple of short but concise videos which explain how to code and update health testing and health monitoring policies and COVID-19 vaccines. You can also find them in the dashboard and in the coding guide.

    Project News



    October 30, 2022



    📣📣 Project Update 📣📣

    Skills Training

    Please let us know what you might be interested in learning/teaching here! Assuming someone on the project has expertise in the area, we'll see what we can do, let us know by mid November 15.



    September 27, 2022



    📣📣 Project Update 📣📣

    CoronaNet Social Event

    We are very excited to see you this Saturday, October 1 for our next CoronaNet Social Event, Name That Tune / Finish The Lyrics! The event will start at 2pm CEST. No singing required unless you want to!



    August 12, 2022



    📣📣 Project Update 📣📣

    130.000 Policy Milestone reached!!!

    Enjoy a summer break from Aug 15th to Aug 26th.

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    July 01, 2022



    📣📣 Project Update 📣📣

    120.000 Policy Milestone reached!!!



    May 6, 2022



    📣📣 Missing End-Dates Update 📣📣

    New End dates Spec Feel free to see the video. here



    March 21, 2022



    📣📣 New Publication Announcement 📣📣

    Big thanks to @Joan Barceló 👏👏 for taking the lead on this article published in the Journal of Peace Research which tries to explain why there may be differences in whether, when and for how long countries implemented lockdowns and curfews around the world. Feel free to see the article here . And of course thanks to all of you who helped collect the data to make such an analysis possible. You can really see how each policy that you document helps forward our understanding of not only what happened during the pandemic, but why. Thanks for all your amazing work toward building this public good!



    March 21, 2022



    📣📣 Data Integration Announcement 📣📣

    We are also looking for a New Data Integration Manager, who can help us with the following task:

  • Follow up on Errors found in the data integration sheet
  • Host a data integration coding hours once a month
  • Generally be available to answer questions about data integration

    • If you are interested, please feel free to reach out to @Cindy Cheng or @Isaac Bravo! 🕵



    March 21, 2022



    It’s time for our quarterly surveys! We only know where we are and what we need to work on based on communication and feedback from you! Every quarter we ask RAs on the project to fill out the following two surveys to give us a better sense of where the data is at and what is going well or not so well on the project.

    Please make sure to fill out the RA Internal Survey for every country you are coding for which asks you about the state of the data AND the Well Being Survey which asks you anonymously about your experience and satisfaction with the project.

    Please try to fill out these surveys by the next Friday, April 01!! They are really important because they help us get a better sense of where the data is, and thus how we should plan for future data collection and they also help us get a better sense of how you are all doing and what we could improve/do better. All of your input is incredibly valuable to making sure we’re all doing the best we can!!



    February 16, 2022



    📣📣 Data Integration Announcement 📣📣

    Over this past few weeks, with the help of more than 139 RAs, over this past month we have coded 958 policies and made overlap and integration assessments for 8500+ policies!!!. Great job everyone that make this possible. 💪 💪



    February 11, 2022



    Ask your PI sessions!! 🙋

    With so many people and things going on in the project, we are sure you have a lot of questions! These Ask Your PI sessions are a chance for you to ask anything and everything that you might want to know about the great people making sure everything runs smoothly on the project. Come join us after the weekly meetings at these dates and times:

    • 16.02. 17-17:30: @Joan Barceló 📌
    • 09.03. 17-17:30: @Bob Kubinec
    • 16.03 17-17:30: @Vanja
    • 23.03. 17-17:30: @Tim
    • 6.04. 17-17:30 @Luca
    • 13.4. 17-17:30 @Caress Schenk
    • 27.04. 17-17:30: @Cindy Cheng
    • 11.05. 17-17:30: @Svanhildur



    February 07, 2022



    Do you want to get more involved in the project? 💡

    We need you!! Do you like helping people? Wanna make the project more fun? Become a Prefect for one the Houses. We are looking to fill prefect roles for all houses!! If you want to be part of this challenge you can message your current prefect or Tasia for more details. Do not loose this opportunity! 🙏



    January 22, 2022



    🎇 CoronaNet Twitter Announcement!! 🎇

    Congratulations CoronaNet Proyect for reaching the first 1000 followers on twitter 👏 👏. We could not have done this without the work and support of our entire team.



    January 21, 2022



    🏒 Code-A-Lympics Event!! 🏂

    Come join us for our Code-A-Lympics this Friday, February 4th from 12-6pm CET. We’ll stream the winter olympics and code/integrate/clean policies together in the Community Hang Out Room Community Hang Out Room (Password: 12345). Stop by for an hour or two to hang out and meet new people on the project! We hope to see you there!



    January 12, 2022



    📢 Very happy to share with you a new tool for viewing our COVID-19 policy intensity scores. 📢

    These scores exist for 6 top-level policy categories which map on to our CoronaNet categories. These scores are derived from a measurement model that also makes use of the OxCGRT data. We are very grateful for the work done by Rohan Bhavikatti, member of the Data Science Team, who has developed this visualisation tool 👏👏. For more of these visualizations, please see here.



    January 12, 2022



    Sky Breath Meditation workshop on January 12 🙆

    There will be two (identical sessions) 1.5 hour sessions; one at 4:30pm CET and another at 10pm CET with a professional from the Technical University of Munich who will teach some basics of this technique and answer questions. To learn more about what this is, please see here . We hope that this can provide some help/constructive tools for dealing with whatever stressors you might have going on.



    November 29, 2021



    📣📣A special visit from of the OxCGRT tracker - Next Weekly Meeting December 1st📣📣

    We have a special Ask Your Fellow Tracker Session at our next weekly meeting! Thomas Hale and Anna Petherick are the PIs of the OxCGRT tracker, our sister project, and they will be with us from 5-5:45 CET next Wednsday to give us an overview of their tracker and to answer any and all questions you might have of them! We’re really excited to have them with us and we hope to see many of you there!



    November 11, 2021



    📌📌NEW WEEKLY MEETING TIME 10am CET 📌📌

    For all those who are not present at our weekly Wednesday meeting or people who live outside of Europe more, we’ll be having an additional meeting (Password : CoronaNet) at 10:00am CET Thursdays (Note📢 no need to attend both meetings!).



    November 03, 2021



    We’re excited to announce that our partners at the 📣📣PERISCOPE project📣📣 have released v1.0 of the new COVID Atlas which combines lots of different information on the pandemic, including the CoronaNet EU data :meow_party:. Feel free to check it out/play around with it here! Its pretty cool to see how much play those event descriptions get in the ‘multivariate analytics’ tab your work is making an impact!!



    October 25, 2021



    We’re excited to announce the upcoming events this fall!! Mark your calenders for:

    • We’ll have an End-Date-O-Ween on October 27, 2021 hosted by @Tasia. Come hang out and code end dates code end dates together in the hang out room! Show up in a costume to get extra points!

    • Ask Your PIs is coming back! Ask us all you ever wanted to know and stuff you probably didn’t want to know at the end of the weekly meetings. Next week, October 27, from 5pm onwards we have our very own @Vanja Grujic with us!

    • Our next Town Hall meeting will be November 3, 4:30-5:30pm CEST. Come with your questions and feel free to post them anonymously ahead of time (or during the meeting) here! We want to hear from you!



    October 25, 2021




    Want to keep track of all the events that are happening at CoronaNet? Check out our new event calendar including all upcoming events like coding hours, end-date-a-thons, ask your PIs sessions and much more!

    You can also find this calendar under the Communication tab on the Main Dashboard.



    October 18, 2021




    We would like to announce a new milestone in our project!📣
    All together we have reached the number of more than 95.000 coded policies in our dataset!!! 🚀
    Many thanks to all those who are part of this project, especially to all the RAs who without their support this achievement would not have been possible. 👏



    September 27, 2021




    Did you ever have a question about the project and didn’t know how to ask? Are you wondering about how CoronaNet is being funded? Or about Cindy’s favorite cheese? Join CoronaNet’s first Townhall during the next weekly meeting on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at 4:30pm (CEST) and ask about everything you ever wanted to know!

    Please use this survey to pose your questions. Your question will be completely anonymous, so feel free to ask about anything!



    September 13, 2021




    BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! We are making some project changes in the coming weeks! Based on feedback from you in previous surveys as well as just hunkering down to think about where it makes the most sense to concentrate our efforts, we are making some changes in terms of:

    • Setting Goals for the Project with differentiated project-wide targets and more country/region-specific goal-making

    • Improving Monitoring and Feedback Mechanisms with a RA Internal Survey, RM/CM Monthly Check-Ins and more specific feedback on which policies need checking

    • Providing better support and tools for reaching these goals with data from external datasets to integrate, better visualization tools (Tableau) and record editing (CornEdit)

    In short we hope that these changes will both improve communication and expectation setting on the project as well as make your jobs of assessing, planning, coding and cleaning much easier and smoother. To get a more detailed idea what these changes entail and why we’re making them, you can take a look at the recording (Passcode: iP+LHc9T) of our previous weekly meeting, the accompanying slides or this website!



    September 9, 2021




    Want to keep track of all the events that are happening at CoronaNet? Check out our new event calendar including all upcoming events like coding hours, end-date-a-thons, ask your PIs sessions and much more!

    You can also find this calendar under the Communication tab on the Main Dashboard.



    September 9, 2021




    We’re excited to announce the first upcoming events this fall!! Mark your calenders for:

    • The COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures (PHSMs) Research Outcome Conference, which brings together all COVID-19 policy trackers and scholars to discuss findings on COVID-19. Thanks for everyone who submitted their work and we’re looking forward to seeing all of you there on October 5-6, 2021.

    • We’ll have an End-Date-O-Ween on October 27, 2021 hosted by @Tasia. Come hang out and code end dates together in the hang out room! Show up in a costume to get extra points!

    • Ask Your PIs is coming back! Ask us all you ever wanted to know and stuff you probably didn’t want to know at the end of the weekly meetings. Next week, September 15, from 5pm onwards we have our very own @Caress Schenk with us!



    September 9, 2021




    We know you’ve all been working hard coding policies for your region and we’d love to learn about what is happening there! We’re looking for volunteers to spend 5 minutes giving us the downlow on the crazy things happening in your region. For this, we have prepared a pool of questions and you can choose up to three of them for presenting your country snapshot. If you are interested in participating, reach out to @Tasia on Slack for more details!



    September 6, 2021




    WE ARE BACK! We hope everyone has had a nice summer break and are excited for the many upcoming events in the following months. Thanks for all your work and dedication on this project; there would be no data without this amazing community, excited to see what we can do together in the fall!

    (Meme credit goes to Rohan Bhavikatti)



    August 16, 2021





    Almost three months have passed and it is time for your input again! Please make sure to fill out the RA Internal Survey for every country you are coding for which asks you about the state of the data AND the Well Being Survey which asks you anonymously about your experience and satisfaction with the project.

    Please try to fill out these surveys by this Friday, August 23!! They are really important because they help us get a better sense of where the data is, and thus how we should plan for future data collection and they also help us get a better sense of how you are all doing and what we could improve/do better. All of your input is incredibly valuable to making sure we’re all doing the best we can!!



    August 16, 2021





    Before we head off on our two week break, we will have our CoronaNet Summer Slumber Party next Friday from 2-6pm CEST where we will play games, watch movies and in general just have fun! Let’s relax, have some fun together and celebrate the amazing work we are all doing. We hope that you can join us in the the community hangout room (Password: 12345) and look forward to meeting more of you there!



    July 27, 2021





    As you all know, we’re in it for the long haul and its important to take breaks to relax, refresh and get reinvigorated. This is why we are planning a two-week project break from August 23rd to September 3rd. You’ve all been doing an amazing job assessing, planning, coding and cleaning policies; some of you for more than a year at this point; and if anyone deserves a vacation its you!



    July 27, 2021



    Join the community hangout room (Password: 12345) on August 4th from 5-8pm CEST for the End-date-Olympics to code end dates and watch the closing ceremony of the Olympics together!



    July 21, 2021



    We hit the milestone of 80,000 policies this week - great work everyone! Without your amazing effort and engagement, this would not have been possible, thanks to all of you!!



    July 12, 2021



    Have you wanted to have a cool way to show the work you’ve done on the project? Well now you have that chance! We are happy to introduce our new badges and titles! There are three levels that you can work toward:



    Put the title on your CV, add the specific badge to your status on slack, and have them on your official CoronaNet certificate!



    July 05, 2021



    Did you ever have a suggestion or comment you wanted to make but didn’t want to wait until the next well-being survey or you didn’t feel comfortable bringing the issue up with your manager or in the general meeting?

    Introducing the Anonymous Comment Box for your positive, negative or neutral feedback!

    Only the prefects have access to the raw responses and including your name is optional, but if you are bringing up an issue that you would like our help solving please include your name so we can help.



    May 26, 2021



    The End-Date-A-Thon Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is coming on June 4, 2020 12pm CET to June 5, 12pm CET. Come join us for an hour or two to clean missing end dates, meet new people on the project and have fun! Collective prizes/rewards for every 500 policies cleaned (e.g. the PIs will wear funny hats to the next weekly meeting)



    May 19, 2021



    We care about your well-being. Please take the mandatory Well-Being survey here by June 1st so we can get a better idea of how you are all doing (and earn an additional 5 Hogwarts points as well!)



    May 19, 2021



    The End-Date-A-Thon Episode V: Empire Strikes Back is coming soon! Please take the doodle here by May 26, 2021 so we can find a time that works best for everyone



    April 27, 2021



    We will host two (identical) coordinating sessions to accommodate as many people as possible:

    • Session 1: Thursday April 29 from 10am-11pm CET, meeting link here (Passcode: 821783) hosted by Svanhildur
    • Session 2: Thursday April 29, 4pm - 5pm CET, meeting link here (Passcode: 699940) hosted by Cindy

    Feel free to join if you have time to learn more about how you can help out (or just about the event itself) — if you didn’t take the doodle poll, a heads up beforehand to Svanhildur or I would be appreciated but not necessary.



    April 22, 2021



    Our first ever End-Date-A-Thon will take place 12pm CET April 30 to 12pm CET May 1st. We’re making this a 24 hour event so that people from all the time zones can participate. Come join us for an hour or two to code missing end dates together, meet other people on the project and have fun! In the sign up sheet for the end-date-of-thon you will see that we are organising the day into:

    • 4 hour blocks:

      • First hour is intro to the event/Q&A
      • Second hour is music/coding hour
      • Third hour is social hour
      • Fourth hour is a wild card hour

    • Goals/rewards

      • Goals from 500, 1000, 1500, 2000 …. etc. missing end dates fixed: every 500 is another ‘milestone’
      • Prizes and Awards for every milestone (like getting the PIs to sing a silly song, more details soon) !

    • We will run updates on the numbers on how we’re progressing as fast as we can run the pipeline, (likely every two hours)

    • Happy for feedback on how to make this as fun as possible! —> let us know on Slack or feel free to enter in your suggestions in the ‘Additional ideas’ column in the sign up sheet above

    • No need to sign up to participate — the sign up sheet is mostly so that we can get an idea of how many people are interested and plan accordingly

    We’re also looking for people to help host some events. If you’re interested in helping out (or just learning more about the event) please write down your name under the ‘Event Host Sign Up’ in the sign up sheet above and take this doodle so that we can find the best time together on Thursday April 29 to have a coordination meeting.



    April 19, 2021



    Have trouble finding reputable sources for coding policies in your country? Are NGOs/IO’s stepping in to address many of the pandemic’s effects? Join the CoronaNet Low State Capacity Workshop at 5pm CET on April 23 to discuss these issues. DM Cindy for more details!



    April 13, 2021



    Curious about what the PIs at CoronaNet do? Don’t miss the ‘Ask Your PI’ session which we will have during our weekly general meetings which take place every Wednesday at 4:30 CET. Mark your calendars for the following ‘Ask Your PI’ sessions:

    • April 14: Allison Hartnett
    • April 28: Joan Barceló
    • May 05: Bob Kubinec



    March 31, 2021



    Please join us for our 1-year Anniversary party on April 2, 4-8pm CET for games, music and celebration of CoronaNet RAs! The event will be held in the CoronaNet Community Hangout Room (Password: 12345)



    March 31, 2021



    Co-PI Dr. Allison Spencer Hartnett will be hosting a [stress and time management workshop] on April 5, 9am PST/6pm CET. Go to the Slack #general channel for the link and password!



    March 12, 2021



    We hit a milestone of 60,000 policies this week — amazing work everyone!



    March 12, 2021



    The project is getting more and more visibility. The Oxford tracker gives us a big shoutout in their new publication in Nature Human Behaviour and we also got a nice mention in an article by Nature news.



    March 12, 2021



    Remember time zone changes are coming!!! Please be mindful/double check the times when scheduling meetings and attending the weekly meeting



    March 12, 2021



    The COVID-19 PHSMS Data Coverage conference that we had last week was a great success, thanks so much again to everyone who came out and especially to Annika Kaiser, Ezgi Caki, Klea Vogli, Maryam AlHammadi and Vanessa Zwisele for their help and support to make it happen. We will be piloting initiatives to integrate data from other datasets country by country and we’ll see how it goes; unless we tap you on the shoulder for this, just sit tight and don’t worry too much about it.



    March 9, 2021



    Please be aware that WE UPDATED OUR WEEKLY MEETING ZOOM LINK Password: CoronaNet



    March 8, 2021



    Join our ‘Back to the 80s’ party today between 5-7pm CET on March 12 in the Community Hangout Room (Password: 12345); DJ Lucky Luca will be playing hits from the Reagan years!



    March 1, 2021



    CoronaNet Code of Conduct: As announced in the weekly meeting last week, with more than 600 RAs working on collecting data on government responses to COVID-19, it is crucial that we treat each other with respect. Please read the CoronaNet Code of Conduct which provides a framework for how RAs are expected to treat each other and what they can do if they experience a problem. Thanks in particular to the Hogwarts prefects for taking the lead on this



    February 26, 2021



    Join our 90s party today between 6-8pm CET in the Community Hangout Room (Password: 12345); DJ Lucky Luca will play hot decks from the 90s and you can also request a song.

    Project Goals

    Overall Project Goal:

    The overall project goal is to gather complete and clean data for all countries

    The time period for which we aim to collect complete and clean data will be different depending on whether a country is a spotlight country or a capsule country and whether subantional data collection is involved:

    Spotlight national and subnational countries: Document policies made up until 10/2021 (hard goal)

    • EU27 Countries + Eurasia + Senegal
      • Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
      • Subnational data collection for bolded countries

    Capsule National Countries: Document policies made up until 03/2021 (hard goal) + 10/2021 (soft goal)

    • Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, North Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Paletsine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

    Capsule Subnational Countries: Document policies made up until 10/2020 (hard goal) + 10/2021 (soft goal)

    • Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland, United States


    For more information, please see the Project Goals page!


    Coding Focus

    • Make sure the end dates are filled
    • Check out our new question on end dates here as well a video explaining how to fix them!
    • Identify missing end dates for your country here
    • See the ‘How do I code end dates’ section in the Coding Guide for guidance

    What Policy Types to prioritize:

    Group 1

    • Lockdown
    • Curfew
    • Quarantine

    Group 2:

    • External Border Restrictions
    • Internal Border Restrictins

    Group 3:

    • Restrictions of Mass Gatherings
    • Social Distancing

    Group 4

    • Closure and Regulation of Schools
    • Restrictions and Regulations of Businesses
    • Restrictions and Regulations of Government Services

    Group 5:

    • Health Monitoring
    • Health Testing
    • Health Resources
    • Hygiene

    Group 6:

    • Declaration of Emergencies
    • New Task Forces
    • Public Awareness Measures
    • Anti-disinformation Measures

    Group 7:

    • COVID-19 Vaccines

    Weekly Competitions

    New Weekly Top Coder Competition📣

    To give you guys credit for data integration, we’re also retooling the weekly top coders competition a bit so that it will include data integration AND the original coding that we’ve been doing all along, for more info on how to participate, please see the screenshot. An important thing to note though is that we can only give credit for integrating data if you fill in the ra_id_overlap or ra_id_integrate columns with your RA ID which you can find here $/to $ computers are super case and spelling sensitive so this is our solution to making sure we can give you proper credit for your work.


    House Cup Competition

    In our weekly house cup competition which ends at 3pm CET every Wednesday, RAs in different houses compete by earning Hogwarts points for the following:

    • 1-2 points per entry for participating in the weekly competition in the #random channel
    • 2 points for attending the general project-wide weekly meetings
    • 2 points for having your camera on during the general project-wide weekly meeting
    • 2 points for having a virtual background during the general project-wide weekly meeting
    • 1 point for asking a question during the general project-wide weekly meeting
    • 2 points for retweeting or resharing CoronaNet social media posts
    • 3-4 points for attending regional weekly meetings
    • 10 - 15 points for filling out the data checklist (look under ‘Organization’ section in the ‘Main Dashboard’)
    • 15 - 20 points for filling out the country overiew
    • 15 - 20 points for filing out the timeline template
    • Up to 20 extra points per week (helping other RAs, answering questions on ra-chat, etc.)

    Winning houses get the honor of picking the song that plays at the beginning of our general project-wide weekly meetings which are held at 4:30pm CET every Wednesday. May the best house win!


    Missing End Dates Competition

    In this weekly missing end dates competition, which runs until Tuesday every week (the winner announced at our Wednesday general project-wide weekly meetings), RAs in different houses compete based on the number of missing end dates they can correct.

    What is this competition?

    We noticed that many people were having difficulty filling in the end dates for their policies because sometimes it is not straightforward. What is the end date for a policy which distributes mask? What is the end date for a policy that recommends handwashing?

    To address this difficulty, we created a new variable: [date_end_spec] (see Coding Guide and the ‘How do I code end dates?’ tab for more information), which allows RA’s to choose between the following options:

    • The policy has a clear end date
    • The policy is a one-time measure (e.g. publication of guidelines, instead of selecting the same start & end date)
    • The policy has an unlimited time span (e.g. recommendations to wash one’s hands; law amendments)
    • The policy has an imprecise natural end date (e.g. masks will be distributed until they run out)
    • policy’s end date is unknown or unreported

    How to participate:

    To participate, you can correct/backcode policies that were coded before we introduced this [date_end_spec] variable.

    • Find policies in your region that are missing end dates here
    • Lean how to correct/backcode these policies in this short video!

    Rules:

    Winning houses are selected based on the following formula: the number of missing end dates filled + The number of people filling in end dates * 2.

    Note: its possible to win even if your house doesn’t correct the most number of policies as long as you have a lot of people helping to do it —> this is a truly a team effort and we want to reward houses that pull their weight together!!

    Winning houses get the honor of having a poem dedicated to them at our general project-wide weekly meetings

    Side competiton: If at least 33% of a house participates in the competition for a given week, the house can choose the icon for the slack channel for the week (and if more than one house reaches this goal in a given week, then the winner is the one that has more people). We hope that this can be a special unicorn of a competition that happens once in a while to give recognition to houses that pull their weight together

    Job Descriptions


    In this section you can find information related to the different job descriptions in CoronaNet Research Project.

    • Job Description: Research Assistant
    Task Time What they need
    Research and code policies 2-7 hrs
  • When starting, this time is used to create country overview
  • Visualization of policy timeline
  • Access to Qualtrics
  • Access to Shiny
  • Codebook and other coding-training materials
  • Access to Data Integration sheets, guidelines and video
    • Code end dates 1 hour
  • List of missing end dates in their country
  • End-date-spec training video
    • Attend meetings (weekly meeting, country/region meetings) 75 minutes
  • Access to relevant Zoom links
    • Progress reporting 15 minutes
  • Access to RA internal survey/well being survey
  • Slack or Zoom for providing updates to regional or country managers
    • Keep up to date with Slack/trainings 30 minutes
  • Access to Slack
  • Access to CoronaNet Dashboard
  • Access to Youtube
    • Job Description: Regional / Country Managers: (estimated 8-10 hrs per week, in addition to coding duties).
    Task Time What they need
    If also RA, then RA tasks
    Onboarding RAs 1 hr per RA
  • Training materials
    • Hold weekly meetings 1 hr
  • Zoom or similar
    • Set quarterly goals 3 hrs/quarter
  • Statistics on country/region: policies coded, RA activity, how far (in time) has region been coded
  • Information from PM/PIs on priorities (spotlight/capsule, policy types, whether more RAs can be allocated, etc.)
  • Survey/form to report goals
    • Set short-term (weekly/biweekly/monthly) goals 1 hr/week
  • Stats on progress, performance
  • Information about special events
  • Management template/sheet for RA oversight
    • Monitor RAs and follow up with them 2 hrs/week
  • Stats on progress performance
    • Attend ExComm 30 minutes a week (1 hr every 2 weeks)
  • Zoom or similar
    • Maintain overview of country/region. Develop country/region-specific tools, sheets, etc. 1 hr/week
  • Stats on progress in region
  • Stats on progress in project
  • Goals and priorities for country/region from PIs
    • Job Description: Prefects
    Task Time
    Attend weekly meeting 45 minutes/week
    Attend Hogwarts meeting 1 hr/week
    Award House points 1 hr/week
    Be very active on Slack 2 hrs/week
    Answer RA questions and concerns 2 hrs/week (as needed)
    Attend ExCom 30 minutes a week (1 hr every 2 weeks)
    If also RA, then RA tasks
    House onboarding 1 hr/week
    Run #onboarding channel with PM team 2 hrs/week
    Boost house morale by posting weekly top coders, etc 30mins-1hr/week
    • Job Description: Principal Investigators
    Task Time What they need
    Set strategic goals for CoronaNet (Cindy, Luca) 2-3 hours
  • Overview of data collection progress, overall and by region/country: how many policies, what time span, size of workforce
  • Field quarterly surveys (RA internal assessment survey, well being survey)
    • Set tone of project through engagement and participation (All PIs) 2-3 hours
  • Host weekly meetings
  • Host project-wide coding hours
  • Host project-wide events
  • Update members on project news in general channel and weekly mails
    • Create, maintain and manage tools and resources RAs need to do their work) (Cindy, Bob, Svanhildur, Tim) 5-10 hours
  • Run, maintain and troubleshoot data pipeline
  • Keep daxonomy up to date
  • Create and maintain project wide apps/platforms for engaging with the data (e.g. Shiny App, Tableau)
  • Maintain and update various project links and resources (e.g. dashboard, coding guide)
    • Manage and provide strategic direction for PM/CM/RM (Caress, Vanja, Luca, Cindy) 2-3 hours
  • Monitoring information for countries/regions: same info as for CM/RMs but also information on goals and progress to date.
  • Host RM/CM meetings
  • Host ExComm meetings
    • Manage and provide strategic direction for Data Science (Cindy, Svanhildur, Tim) 1-2 hours
  • Host data science meetings
  • Provide feedback on data science initiatives
  • Maintain website
    • Manage and provide strategic direction for Data Validation (Joan, Allison) 1-2 hours
  • Create data validation resources
  • Organize/distribute data validation work
    • Manage and provide strategic direction for Data Cleaning (Bob, Cindy) 1-2 hours
  • Create data integration resources and tutorials
  • Run weekly competitions
  • Organize/distribute data integration work
    • Manage RA wellbeing (Luca) 1-2 hours
  • Host Hogwarts meetings
  • Host Town Hall meetings
  • Field relevant concerns submitted to the anonymous comment box
    • Manage collaboration with other trackers (Cindy, Luca) 1-2 hours
  • Host/participate in COVID-19 conferences
    • Manage external engagement, including website and presentation of data (All PIs) 2-3 hours
  • Host/participate in strategic meetings with EU partners
  • Apply for outside funding
  • Oversee social media outreach
    • Research and papers (All PIs) 1-2 hours
  • Push forward COVID-19 research
  • Supervise WPS papers
  • Host periodic research workshops
    • Administrative Overhead (All PIs) 2-3 hours
  • Manage/administer internship contracts
  • Write letters of recommendation

    • Coronanet Regions

    CoronaNet organizes its coding in regions and countries.

    Find out what region your country belongs to by checking out the map below or visiting this link for an interactive version of this map!


    Main Dashboard

    Row

    Coding Resources

    How to …

    Assess the policies in your country

    Make a plan for coding

    Get started with coding

    Clean policies in your country


    Get help with assessing, planning, coding and cleaning the data for your region!

    Don’t hesitate to ask questions! If you have them you can…

    1. Refer to the Codebook for variable definitions
    2. Check out the Coding Guide for examples of how to code corrections, updates and policy types
    3. Check out the FAQ in the Shiny App! It is updated weekly with the most common questions posed on #ra-chat
    4. Don’t see your question there? Post it in the #ra-chat channel.
    5. Reach out to your regional mangager, hogwarts channel or fellow RAs for advice


    General Resources

    Watch our training video for assessing, planning, coding and cleaning!

    In this Oct 1 Training Video (Passcode: f5G6^AY7) we go over the rationale for assessing, planning, coding and cleaning. We also provide an overview of the new tools available on this dashboard in order to do so, including the :
    CoronaNet Manual

    This is the ‘Bible’ of the CoronaNet Project

    • You can learn about all the different parts of the project in detail from reading the Manual.
    Coronanet Data Collection and Guidelines

    • You can learn about the different resources to find policies, updates to the codebook and variable defintions here!
    CoronaNet Coding Guide

    • You can learn about how to code corrections, updates and different policy types here!
    CoronaNet Skeleton

    • Confused as to how a policy should look? Check out how in theory the data should look like and examples of ‘clean’ data here!
    CoronaNet RA Onboarding Document

    • Overwhelmed by all the material on this dashboard? Check out the CoronaNet RA Onboarding document to get a quick but substantive overview of the different parts of the project
    CoronaNet Low State Capacity Guidelines

    CoronaNet Policy Predictor

    • Unsure how to code a policy? Joseph Shim has created a great new tool that provides a model-based best ‘guess’ of a policy based on the policy description. These model-based predictions will continue to improve i) based on your feedback (reach out to Joseph or Cindy!) and ii) as the overall data becomes cleaner and cleaner. We hope this can be an additional resource to asking your fellow RAs, regional/country managers, #ra-chat etc. on your way to taxonomy mastery!
    CoronaNet Duplicate Detector

    • Wondering whether a policy you are about to code is already in the dataset? Abdul Ali Khan has created an amazing new tool that provides an automated check for duplicates based on a policy description. We hope this can be an additional resource to help you in your coding and prevent duplicates in the future!

    Bulk Access

    All videos

    • Access all videos that have been created for CoronaNet’s YouTube Channel here!
    All documents and sheets

    • Access all Google docs and Google Sheets in the CoronaNet Google drive here!


    Tools Resources

    Overton Raw Sources

    How to use the Overton Raw Sources

    Overton is a company which collects government documents from around the world and which has generously allowed us to access to raw government documents related to COVID-19.

    • To find relevant documents for your country, please click on the corresponding URL in the ‘Country List’ front page of the Overton Raw Sources sheet.

    • The documents listed in the Overton Raw Sources sheet are scraped from the Overton site. They provide a useful reference point for:

      • Checking whether all government policies related to COVID-19 in your country are coded.
      • Providing additional sources for where to find information about COVID-19 polcies in a particular country. If it is not already noted, feel free to note such sources in the relevant ‘General Country Information’ link found in your respective regional or country dashbbaord.

    • The Overton Raw Sources sheet will be updated weekly.

    • Caveats:

      • Note that the list provided by Overton is not a definitive list of all COVID-19 related policies but provide a strong foundation for finding and verifying the existence of COVID-19 policies in a particular country.
      • Note that not all documents listed in the Overton Raw Sources sheet may be relevant to code for the CoronaNet Project.
      • In addition note Overton does not cover all countries.

    Jataware/Starsift Raw Sources

    How to use the Jataware/Starsift Raw Sources

    Jataware/Starsift is a company which has scraped the web for news articlesrelated to COVID-19.

    • To find relevant documents for your country, please click on the corresponding URL in the ‘COVID-19 Directory’ front page of the Jataware/Starsift Raw Sources sheet.

    • The news articles listed in the Jataware/Starsift Raw Sources sheet are scraped from the web. They provide a useful reference point for:

      • Checking whether all government policies related to COVID-19 in your country are coded.
      • Providing additional sources for where to find information about COVID-19 polcies in a particular country. If it is not already noted, feel free to note such sources in the relevant ‘General Country Information’ link found in your respective regional or country dashbbaord.

    • Jataware/Starsift stopped data collection for news related to COVID-19 in August 2020; thus their links can only provide information for dates prior to August 2020.

    • Caveats:

      • Note that when possible, it is best to use a government source as the basis for coding a policy and for this reason, the government documents provided by Overton may be more helpful. However when there are no government documents available, then it is fine to document a policy if you use at least 2 news sources to substantiate it and the Jatware/Starsift database may be helpful in this regard
      • Note that the list provided by Jataware/Starsift is not a definitive list of all COVID-19 related policies but provide a strong foundation for finding and verifying the existence of COVID-19 policies in a particular country.
      • Note that not all documents listed in the Jataware/Starsift Raw Sources sheet may be relevant to code for the CoronaNet Project.

    Policy Checker Sheet

    How to Use the Data integration Sheets 📌

    The Data Integration Sheets allow RAs to i) assess what data external datasets have which is currently not in the CoronaNet database and ii) document whether they have integrated, that is, recoded this additional data to the CoronaNet database. For more information on what data integration is and how to do it, please see our data integration guidelines💡.

    Qualtrics Survey

    How to access the Qualtrics Survey

    • You will receive access to the Qualtrics survey after having passed the training test and filling out the committment form
    • Every RA receives a personalized link to the Qualtrics survey
    • Please contact if you have not recieved access to the survey (note, there may be a lag of a few days before you receive access)
    What’s in the Qualtrics Survey?

    CoronaNet Training Survey Answer Key

    • Before joining the project, you were asked to pass the training survey to make sure you know how to use the Qualtrics survey to collect data on governments’ COVID-19 policies.
    • Take a look through the answers in the CoronaNet Training Survey Answer Key

    Shiny App

    How to Access the Shiny App

    • You need an email invitation to access the Shiny App
    • If you have not received an email invitation/have a problem with your invite, please post your issue on the shiny app channel
    • Check your spam folders for such an invitation
    • If you have never received an invitation, post in the #shinyapp and someone will add you
    How to use the Shiny App


    Tableau Dashboards

    How to use Tableau Dashboards

    CoronaNet Data Previously Uploaded PDFs

    How to use CoronaNet’s Previously Uploaded PDFs

    These are the pdfs of policies that have already been documented in the CoronaNet database. You can use these pdfs to:

    • Get a clearer sense of the policy history in your country/region
    • Help you clean or correct incomplete or incorrectly coded policies

    The relevant links to the pdfs are in the ‘download link 1’ or ‘download link 2’ columns for each country or region. You can also access the pdfs for your country or region in your country or regional dashbaord under the heading ‘Primary Sources for Old Policies’

    Delete a Policy

    When to delete a policy

    • There are duplicate policies
    • It is easier to delete a policy and start over than to correct it
    • The policy does not belong in the dataset

    Slack

    What is Slack?

    • Slack is the main tool that CoronaNet members use to communicate with each other
    • Explore different functionalities in Slack here!
    • Aside from your regional or country channel, the most relevant channels in slack are #ra-chat (where you can ask all your coding questions), #random (where you can participate in weekly Hogwarts contests), #ra-suggestions (where you can provide suggestions for how to improve the Qualtrics survey), and #general (where you can get and post general information of general interst)

    Organization Resources

    CoronaNet Data Integration Resources

    Missing End Dates

    How to fill out the Regional/Country Data Checklist

    Templates

    How to fill out the Country Overview

    How to use the Timeline Template

    Communication

    Country Reports and Research Notes

    CoronaNet Spotify Playlists

    Titles and Badges

    • We want to acknowledge all the amazing work you have done for the project and recognize the many hours you have put into collecting data on COVID-19 government responses. We are happy to introduce badges and titles!
      • There are three levels that you can work toward:



      • Get your CoronaNet badge and title! You can put them on your CV, add the specific badge to your status on Slack, and have them on your official CoronaNet certificate.
      • To find out which title you have earned at CoronaNet so far, please check out this list which will be updated on a weekly basis!
    Anonymous Comment Box

    • We want this project to be the best for all of you and we can only get better by your feedback.
      • Give us your positive, negative, and neutral feedback via the Anonymous Comment Box!
      • Only the prefects have access to the raw responses and including your name is optional. If you are bringing up an issue that you would like our help solving please include your name so we can help.
      • If you have additional questions about how this box works, do not hesitate to reach out to the prefects!
    CoronaNet Event Calendar

    • Want to keep track of all the events that are happening at CoronaNet?
      • Check out the CoronaNet Event Calendar including all upcoming events like coding hours, end-date-a-thons, ask your PIs sessions and much more!
      • If you have additional questions about any event or want to host one yourself, do not hesitate to reach out to @Cindy Cheng or the prefects!
    How to get more involved

    • Get your country/region clean and up to date until the present day and not just October 1st

      • Help with coding another country (ask your country/regional manager or project manager for this).

      • Help out with the management of the project by becoming a regional or country manager or a Hogwarts prefect (ask your country/regional manager or project manager about this).

      • Join the Data validation team! Contact Klea Vogli or project management

      • Join the Data Cleaning team! Contact Karina Lisboa Båsund or project management

      • Take a look at the CoronaNet Task Sign-Up Sheet for discrete tasks that need to be done, and contact the relevant person under the ‘Contact’ column with the task you’re interested in and the relevant skills that you have

    Code of Conduct

    • With more than 600 RAs working together to collect data on government policies mad in response to COVID-19, it is crucial that we treat each other with respect. Please read the CoronaNet Code of Conduct for guidelines on how to interact with other RAs on the project and how you can reach out if you experience a problem.


    On Slack

    Find out what all the different channels are.

    If you do not have access to some of them, please contact your regional or country manager and s/he can add you or Saif Khan or Vanesa Zwisele.

    #ra-chat
    • This is the main channel to ask your coding questions, don’t be shy! Ask them in #ra-chat
    • A summary of all the previously asked questions can be found in the FAQ section in the Shiny App
    #shinyapp
    • This is the main channel to report any problems that you’ve been having with the shiny app #ra-chat
  • Note, if you’re experiencing issues, please note the policy_ids or record_ids associated with your issue so that we can identify and solve your problem!
    • #general Announcements about updates or changes to the project are posted in the #general channel. Also feel free to post information about events or research opportunities relevent to COVID-19
    #random Participate in the weekly Hogwarts competiton or just post random stuff that you’re interested in in the #random channel!
    #ra-suggestions Have a suggestion on how to improve the survey or the project? We’d love to hear from you, post it in the #ra-suggestions channel!
    #orphaned-records Find a policy that is an update but isn’t connected to a new entry? Post your problem in the #orphaned-records channel!
    #research-ideas Have a research idea and looking for feedback or for a collaborator? Post in the #research-ideas channel!
    Claim your title and get your badge!

    Have you wanted to have a cool way to show the work you’ve done on the project? Well now you have that chance with our new badges and titles!


    Add the specific badge to your status on Slack and show your experience and expertise!


    Certificates

    Get your certificate for your work at CoronaNet!

    We want to recognize all the amazing work you have done for the project and the many hours you have spent researching and coding policies into the CoronaNet dataset. Therefore, we are more than happy to provide you with an individualized Certificate of Appreciation which you can retrieve from here! This certificate includes all your responsibilities you have had during your time at CoronaNet and will be updated automatically on a regular basis.
    If you have any questions or specific requests concerning the certificates, do not hesitate to reach out to the Project Management Team via email () or on Slack!


    Our public profile


    Saying goodbye? Before you go…
    1. Please make sure to contact your regional manager to let them know that you’ll be leaving
    2. Make sure you fill out an Exit Report before you go!
      • The exit report is important to pass on information so that the next RA has a better idea of what’s going on in your region and what should be done (see this short video for more instructions). You can send your exit report to . Please use this standard file name: [ra_name][country_name][date]_exitreport.docx.
      • For regional and country managers, we have created a regional and country manager exit report template which we hope you will fill out and pass on to the next regional or country manager to fill your position!
      • If you have other any useful information about your country that you would like to pass on, please email them to .
    3. Lastly, please fill out this exit survey to let us know about your experience with us and how we can do better!

    Skills Building

    CoronaNet Working Paper Series

    Interested in building your research skills? Get involved with the CoronaNet Working Paper Series! Visit the CoronaNet Working Paper Series website to learn more.
    … how to write an academic paper

    • Check out this workshop on academic writing organized by and led by Professor Caress Schenk! (Video) Passcode: +?.S3%3e
    … how to formulate a research question

    • Check out this workshop on how to formulate a research question organized and led by Luca Messerschmidt! (Video) Passcode: PYUyfC4$
    … learn about different research methods and research design

    • Check out this workshop on what research methods are out there and what is the most appropriate to use for your research question, led by Dr. Tim Model (Video)
    … how to analyze CoronaNet data in R

    • Check out this workshop on how to use R to analyze the data you’re collecting for Coronanet! Led by Dr. Cindy Cheng (Video) (Password: 0?760zGU )


    Learn how to explore the CoronaNet data with R!

    • Check out the CoronaNet Learning Platform a tutorial that Luca Messerschmidt has put together which takes students through the basics of R in order to help people work with the CoronaNet data:
    How to pitch CoronaNet on your CV

    • Check out the workshop that Prof. Allison Hartnett held on how to write a CV in general and how to pitch your CoronaNet experience on it (Slides) (Video)
    Wondering whether to pursue a PhD?

    • Check out this info session (Password: 3w#GmNJ7) that Dr. Cindy Cheng held on pursuing a PhD

    Incoming RAs

    There is a lot of information to absorb for this project. This dashboard provides a guideline for what materials new RAs should look at and in what order in order to making the onboarding process as smooth as possible. Note:

    • All the materials in this dashboard can also be found in the main dashboard.
    • The suggested time frame below is meant to be a guide only.

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    General RA Responsibilities

    • Do some combination of either i) assessing the overlap assessment for 25 policies in the data integration sheets or ii) coding 5 policies into Qualtrics each week
    • Attend the Weekly Meetings on Wednesday, 4:30 CET or Thursday 10am CET if its reasonably possible to do to learn about how the project is changing. The success of this project depends on communication and coordination and the more you can participate, the better we can do both.
    • Attend your regional or country manager meetings or office hours
    • Keep up to date with the policies in your country, focusing on the priority policy types first for data integration (see Announcments-Project Goals- Coding Focus tab)
    • Fill out the RA internal assessment and Well being survey once every 2-3 months
    • Help us build as much institutional knowledge as possible about how countries make policies. This includes uploading your country overviews and templates into the ‘RA Materials’ tab as well as filling out the ‘General Country Information’ tab for your country or region so that we can share knowledge about where the best sources of information are for particular countries

    All of the responsibilities listed above have something to do with communication. If the work becomes too much for you and/or if you need some help, that is totally fine! The important thing is that you just let us know. By that same token, if you need a break please contact your regional or country manager to let him/her know. Similarly, if you need to leave the project, then please do the same and also take the time to fill out an exit report and exit survey (you can find out more about both in the ‘Communications’ tab in the main dashboard.)

    Week 1

    Welcome to your first offical week on the project! We’re so excited to have you on board. You’ve just gone through the onboarding process and you don’t know where to begin?

    After this, you can look at the ‘Week 2-3’ tab for our suggestions on what you can do next. Before you do that though, please make sure that you…


    Have gone through all the training that you should have before being onboarded:


    Have access to…

       If you don’t have access to these items, please see the ‘Tools Resources’ chart in the ‘Main Dashboard’ for instructions on how to get access


    Have had contact with…

    • Your country or regional manager (check the regional dashboards to see who is your country manager)
    • Your Hogwarts prefect (you should have been sorted into a house, if not please post on the #general channel and someone will sort you!)


    Annoyed by all the Slack pings?.

    • Remember you can always ‘mute’ channels or ‘Pause notifications’ in order to make Slack less hectic
    • Feel free to check out Slacks tutorials for more information on its other functionalities

    Find out what all the different channels are.

    If you do not have access to some of them, please contact your regional or country manager and s/he can add you or Saif Khan, Stella Kim or Vanesa Zwisele.

    #ra-chat
    • This is the main channel to ask your coding questions, don’t be shy! Ask them in #ra-chat
    • A summary of all the previously asked questions can be found in the FAQ section in the Shiny App
    #general Announcements about updates or changes to the project are posted in the #general channel. Also feel free to post information about events or research opportunities relevent to COVID-19
    #random Participate in the weekly Hogwarts competiton or just post random stuff that you’re interested in in the #random channel!
    #ra-suggestions Have a suggestion on how to improve the survey or the project? We’d love to hear from you, post it in the #ra-suggestions channel!
    #orphaned-records Find a policy that is an update but isn’t connected to a new entry? Post your problem in the #orphaned-records channel!
    #research-ideas Have a research idea and looking for feedback or for a collaborator? Post in the #research-ideas channel!

    Week 2-3

    Congrats on finishing the first week of the project! Now that you are on your second or third week of the project: Please make sure that you have all gone through everything in the ‘Week 1’ tab. In this tab, we provide some guidelines on the materials you should know or have access to as well as the things you should do by the end of of the next two weeks:


    What you should know…

    Take the time to familiarize yourself with the state of the data for your country and or region. This involves knowing …

    …what policies for your country and region are already coded in the CoronaNet Database

    • You can use the The Shiny App to find out what has already been coded in your country or region.

  • You can also check out the Tableau dashbaords to be able to sift through the data that has been coded for your country or region

    • Check out this video to learn all about the cool funcionalities Tableau has
    • …what policies there are still left to code for your country or region in the CoronaNet Database
    • Prioritize the external data for your country or subnational region from the (Data Integration Sheets)https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Aq1ydsjUtfhiOXuqxmX6l1pIOvIxNY5a35iYrBtTE8k/edit#gid=0
    • If the previous RA for your country or region has left any useful information about policies in your country or region, you can find it in the ‘RA Materials’ section in your country or regional dashboard. See the ‘How to Access RA Materials’ instructions in your country or regional dashboard to access them.
    • If a previous RA didn’t leave anything that doesn’t mean the country is all coded! In this case, you will have to do some legwork in finding out if there are other policies to code (see below)
    …how to find new/more policies for your country or region

    • You can look in the ‘General Country Information’ tab in your regional or country dashboard to see if the previous RA has left any specific information on which government ministries to keep an eye on for finding out information about COVID-19 policies

    • You can check the CoronaNet Data Collection Guidelines and Codebook ‘Data Sources’ section to get ideas about how to find policies for your country

    • You can check out the Overton Raw Sources to see if there is information about policies in your country there. Look under ‘Tool Resources’ in the main dashboard for more information on what Overton is and how to use their sources

    • You can check out the Starsift/Jataware Raw Sources to see if there is information about policies in your country there. Look under ‘Tool Resources’ in the main dashboard for more information on what Overton is and how to use their sources

    • You can check out the Policy Checker Sheet to see if there is information about policies in your country there. Look under ‘Tool Resources’ in the main dashboard to find out how to use the Policy Checker Sheet


    What you should do

    Once you get a general overview of the state of the CoronaNet data in your country, as well as what potential sources you still need to code, and where to find information on policies not yet coded, then focus on:

    • Creating a country overview targeted toward the specific policies that we are concentrating on in the project for that week (you can find out which policies these are from ‘Goal for this week’ in the sidebar of the main dashboard) unless asked to do otherwise by your regional or country manager.
    • You might also find it helpful to create a timeline for your region’s policies as well.


    Have had contact with…

    • Your regional or country manager to get feedback on your country overview or timeline

    Week 3 and beyond

    By the end of week 3 you should have created a country overview and/or timeline targeted toward a few policies. Make sure that you consult with your regional or country manager before coding these policies into Qualtrics. Please see the tab for ‘Week 1’ if you’re having trouble figuring out how to get started with creating the country overview. In this tab, we provide some guidelines on the materials you should know or have access to as well as the things you venture out to week 3 and beyond:


    What you should know…

    Take the time to get to know the Qualtrics survey and how to code certain policies into the survey. Note that if you are taking over for a previous RA, it may be the case that instead of coding new policies, you are instead correcting old ones. We have some resources to help you out how to do both! Including…

    • Not sure what the universe of policies there are in the survey? The Policy Sub-Type Expansion has them all in one place. Be sure to cross-reference the CoronaNet Data Collection Guidelines and Codebook ‘Variable Definitions’ section for more examples of each policy type as well as definitions for other dimensions of the data
    • Coding Guide: This is hands-down the best tool that you can use to figure out how a policy should be coded once you’ve figured out the policy type that it should be coded under


    What you should do…

    Once you’ve had the time to get a lay of the land for a few policies, its time to start integrating policies! If the policies in CoronaNet are not clean, you should clean these first (refer to your country overview or timeline template here). If not, you can get started with data integration by finding the relevant external data for your country or region in the Data Integration Sheets. For help on how to do data integration, you can always reach out to your manager or people on #ra-chat as well as check out the resources below.


    Have had contact with…

    • Your regional or country manager about your data integration plan

    For the coming weeks, you should engage in the same process to integrate all other policies made in your country (which itself can be broken down into the steps of assess, plan, code and clean) all other policies made in your country. Gradually, you should get to the point where all the policies in your country are integrated and if so, you can reach out to us for your next assisgnment!

    Data Validation

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    Data Validation

    Steps for Data Validation 📋

    • In this short document, we outline the steps for validating data.

    Training Video 💻

    • In this mandatory training video, we go over all you need to know about how to validate data!


    Validation Coding Zoom Session

    Timeline

    Slack Channel

    Q & A

    Contact People

    • @Allison
    • @Joan
    • @Md Azmeer

    Team 1

    Instructions 🗹

    Validation Dataset

    Survey Link

    Focus this week

    Team 2

    Instructions 🗹

    Validation Dataset

    Survey Link

    Focus this week

    Northern Africa

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    General Country Information

    Primary Sources for Old Policies

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    How to explore the Northern Africa dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Eastern Africa

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    How to explore the Eastern Africa dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Central Africa

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    How to explore the Central Africa dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Southern Africa

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    How to explore the Southern Africa dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Western Africa

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    How to explore the Western Africa dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    North/Central America

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    How to explore the Central America dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    South America

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    How to explore the South America dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Eurasia

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    How to explore the Eurasia dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Eastern Asia

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    General Country Information

    Primary Sources for Old Policies

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    How to explore the Eastern Asia dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Southeast Asia

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    How to explore the Southeast Asia dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    South Asia

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    How to explore the South Asia dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Eastern Europe and Western Asia

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    How to explore the Eastern Europe and Western Asia dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Northern Europe

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    How to explore the Northern Europe dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Southern Europe

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    How to explore the Southern Europe dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Western Europe

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    How to explore the Western Europe dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Oceania

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    How to explore the Oceania dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    Middle East

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    How to explore the Middle East dashboard!

    Here are some tips to improve your experience when exploring the Tableau Dashboard:

    • In case you want to share or extract the code behind the dashboard to incorporate it into another file, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Share
    • Additionally, if you want to download the data that make up each of the dashboards, select one of the tabs at the top of the dashboard, scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon: Download
    • Finally, if you want to explore the dashboard in a better perspective, you can scroll at the bottom of the page and click on this icon Expand and the dashboard will automatically adapt to the height and width of your screen.

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    USA

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    India

    Russia

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