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Weekly number of users contributing to our COVID-19 data repository
Number of new users that contributed either by creating or commenting to at least one issue or one pull request in the GitHub repository in the last 7 days.
Source
(2024) – processed by
Last updated
November 5, 2024
Next expected update
November 2025
Unit
users

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Thumbnail for article How our team at became a global data source on COVID-19

How our team at became a global data source on COVID-19

Saloni Dattani, Edouard Mathieu, and Lucas Rodés-Guirao

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This data is based on the following sources

During the global COVID-19 pandemic, had a key role in collecting, disseminating, and publishing various indicators. These included figures on vaccinations, testing, confirmed deaths and cases, and more.

This work was done in a GitHub repository, in the public eye. received numerous contributions from other actors who voluntarily helped collect all the data. Without their contribution, creating the dataset wouldn't have been possible.

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November 5, 2024
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. (2024). COVID-19 Data. GitHub repository. .

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“Data Page: Weekly number of users contributing to our COVID-19 data repository”, part of the following publication: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser (2020) - “COVID-19 Pandemic”. Data adapted from . Retrieved from /grapher/number-of-users-participating-issue-or-pull-request-owid-covid-repository [online resource]
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 (2024) – processed by

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 (2024) – processed by . “Weekly number of users contributing to our COVID-19 data repository” [dataset]. , “GitHub stats on owid/covid-19-data repository” [original data]. Retrieved April 27, 2025 from /grapher/number-of-users-participating-issue-or-pull-request-owid-covid-repository