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The Italian Department of Civil Protection is now publishing detailed confirmed case statistics on GitHub. I just finished throwing together a little animated map of of how it's been spreading across provinces:

https://observablehq.com/@jashkenas/italy-coronavirus-daily-...

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Very nice, thank you!

I reply with my humble contribution, based mainly on John Hopkins' data. I tried to understand if the effect of restrictions is already visible (I hope it will... since I live in Milan), thus I fitted an exponential on the data from the week before March 1 (when the initial mild restrictions started) and compared with the actual growth.

https://www.kaggle.com/mattiamonga/covid19

The model is quite simplistic, but the decrease seems real. Let's hope a bigger one will happen in the next days.

Super interesting. For once it doesn’t look like a population density map.

Thanks! It should keep updating every day, as new numbers are published.

I suspect if you laid transportation networks and commerce centers over the data there would be some alignment.

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