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I find that BNO [0] is the fastest in reporting new cases (both in aggregate and in detail) and gives sources so you can see what region of the country is affected.

[0] https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus....

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Their map is crap though. They indicate the southern US as nearly free of cases. I had initially been viewing it alone, thinking things seemed remarkably fine. Data seems accurate, but don't trust their map.

They used to be. In the last few days, they started falling behind (and as others said, the map is very out of date).

However at least for Germany the embedded map is very outdated, possibly hasn't been updated for a week or more?

More than a week. Confirmed cases are 30 in Florida, presently. But strangely, the map historically indicated much more, then suddenly removed many cases.

One reason more to never look at secondary sources. Stick to the primary ones.

Nowadays every "data scientist" can pull a data set from the internet and toy around with it. Build a map and website and put it online. Without review of neither the results nor the source material. Share it on Twitter, reddit, Facebook and the numbers are out there. Unverified and impossible to take back.

I really wished people would stop doing that. Play around for yourself if you want, but keep it to yourself.

Why does speed matter in that regard? Honestly asking. Because I prefer confirmed and reviewed numbers, quality, over speed here. Daily is more than enough for me. I just wished the WHO situation reports had more depth to the data. But I am not necessarily the target audience of those.

Speed matters to a degree. A lot of resources around, including the ones linked in the Wolfram documents, are outdated by number of days or do not disclose when was the series for a region updated last. For instance, as I am writing this on March 12, Wolfram says last update is March 11. It lists Sweden with 355 cases. That number is actually from March 10 and the actual value should be 500 for March 11 and 565 as of now. It also does not give you sources for changes so you don't get an idea of where these cases are. Both BNO and worldometers give these sources. To me personally it is important to know what the growth is in my neighbourhood rather than in the whole country.

For the same reason, I am not looking at the map so I do not care that much that it is outdated. It conveys zero information about the geographic distribution of new cases/deaths within most countries. I am yet to see a resource for the whole world that is as detailed as what China/SK/SG have.

And before I am told that I should just look at local news. I am an expat with family and friends scattered across Europe. I want to know what's the risk for them in one place not 5.

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