Crowd-sourced COVID-19 Dataset Tracking Involuntary Government Restrictions (TIGR)

Step 1: See a news article reporting a new government restriction, google news, reddit

Step 2: Submit a report of it to the dataset

Step 3: Copy and paste the project link into social media https://github.com/rexdouglass/TIGR

Introduction

This is a crowdsourced data collection effort to record new mandatory government restrictions intended to slow the spread of COVID-19.

—–>Submit a Report of a Government Restriction <————

We don’t know the answers to two important questions:

1. How government interventions changes the rate of growth in COVID19 spread within a community

2. What determines when governments will implement some interventions rather than others

We WANT reports of restrictions that are

• By a government

• Mandatory (legally required)

• New (a change to the previous rules)

For example:

• On March 12th, Ohio banned gatherings of more than 100 people.

• On March 15th, Saudi Arabia banned flights to and from hotspot countries.

• On March 10, New Rochelle, NY closed schools and businesses other than grocery stores and delis.

We DO NOT want:

• VOLUNTARY restrictions (CDC recommending canceling gatherings of more than 50 people)

• PRIVATE restrictions (Google requested its employees transition to working remotely)

• CURRENT policies (Don’t report that China currently has a ban on flights now, only report if China made the CHANGE on the date you give)

Historical reports are welcome! (back to December 1, 2019)

Duplicate reports are fine, don’t worry if it has already been submitted.

No personal information is requested, and the results will be made public for academic research.

Survey administered by Rex W. Douglass (PhD) (@RexDouglass), who will post results and further details as the project evolves at his twitter handle @RexDouglass .

—–>Submit a Report of a Government Restriction <————

The Data

Here are the data collected thus far (intended to update once every 15 minutes):

[1] "Last updated  2020-05-28 10:00:06"

———–>Please Submit a Report of a Government Restriction <————