“There was no archive, so you couldn’t go back and see yesterday’s statistics,” Daria Orlowska, data librarian at WMU, told the network. “I thought this was really interesting information, so I started backing it up.”
Ms. Orlowska on April 2 began collecting the state’s data and compiling it into a single spreadsheet, which will be housed in the university’s institutional repository ScholarWorks. The spreadsheet contains daily information on numbers of available personal protective equipment, hospitalizations and confirmed cases.
The data tool may be useful for understanding the effects of COVID-19 in Michigan, said Paul Gallagher, WMU resources and digital strategy dean.
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