Best practices for government agencies to publish data: lessons from COVID-19

• Main Authors: Bastian Herre, PhD (Author), Lucas Rodés-Guirao, MEng (Author), Edouard Mathieu, MA (Author), Hannah Ritchie, PhD (Author), Charlie Giattino, PhD (Author), Joe Hasell, MSc (Author), Saloni Dattani, PhD (Author), Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, PhD (Author), Max Roser, ProfPhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Without data, knowing how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic would have been impossible. Data were crucial to understanding how the disease spread and which efforts successfully protected people. Yet, national agencies often did not publish their data in an optimal way, which made respondi...