Abstract
“The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, … because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data,” quoted by Hal Varian [1] , This quote describes the accelerated growth of data science. For example, any social activities like transactions, dealings and business exchanges are frequent and universal occurrences in human society which creates an amount of data, The amount of data being created each year is growing at an exponential rate and faster than ever before. Since 2012. Big data has created 8 million jobs in the US alone and 6 million worldwide [2], This statistic helps us in understanding the extremity of data and the immense rate at which it grows. The metadata or records associated with this information is exceptionally valuable to healthcare industry, government and other sectors [3]. Because when this recorded data is inspected, modeled, examined and researched it reveals significantly insightful information which draws out successful conclusions and helps in contingency planning, resource allocation and decision making which effects billions of users and touches some important aspects of their lives. This large scale data attracts more attention and interest of the end-user and is more understandable when it is presented in a infographic visual rather than just statistic numbers [4]. In these ongoing times of Covid-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 [5], This project presents a dashboard to explore the impacts of virus, its spread and severity and focuses on giving an informed outlook on the situation. This dashboard is interactive and focuses on keeping the user engaged with latest information about the covid trends across all countries of the world, which will give the end-user a basis of comparison among different parts of the world. It will showcase the progression of the spread and fatalities over the time. This dashboard at a quick glance will convey important information, display the most affected areas and have meters which will keep track of important figures which will motivate the end-user understand the volatile nature of current situation and seek preventive measures accordingly.