PAKISTAN’S COVID-19 VISUALIZATION USING POWER BI
By: Kinza Saeed
Tags: Power Bi, Visualization, Pakistan, Data Science, Data Visualization

PAKISTAN’S COVID-19 VISUALIZATION USING POWER BI

June 5, 2020 by Kinza Saeed

What is Covid-19?

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome. Common symptoms include fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, and loss of smell and taste. While the majority of cases result in mild symptoms, some progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) likely precipitated by a cytokine storm, multi-organ failure, septic shock, and blood clots. The time from exposure to onset of symptoms is typically around five days but may range from two to fourteen days.

Data Sources

The dataset is mainly taken from

Additional resources of data are the

Software Tools

Power BI is used for Pakistan’s Covid-19 Visualization. It helps us for a better understanding of data through visualizations. Power BI is a business analytics service that enables you to see all of your data through a single pane of glass.

Data Cleaning

Power BI is used for the cleaning of data. It is done by removing null values, rename data field, deleting blank rows, replacing value, dropping extra columns, changing data types, and modifying by using other valid resources. Covid-19 is a new virus and its dataset is under processing that’s why its cleaning is a big deal.

Power BI useful insights of Covid-19 Outbreak

We can analyze and visualize the Covid-19 dataset to show the country, provincial, and city-level situation of Covid-19 using Power BI.

Visualizations

1. Introductory Dashboard

Introductory Dashboard

Observations

This is an introductory dashboard that has the link of the Covid-19 Information portal Pakistan and Covid-19 help. These links have information about the Covid-19 situation in Pakistan and the whole world respectively. There is a link to Covid-19 symptoms and the advice that helps to avoid Covid-19.

2. Main Menu of Visualizations

The main menu of visualizations

Main Menu

It is the main menu of the visualization. It has all the contents of the visualization. Any content can be selected to go to the respective page.

3. Main Summary of Visualizations

Main Summary of COVID-19 Outbreak in Pakistan

Observations

This is the main summary of the COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan. the cards are showing overall confirmed and active cases, deaths, recoveries, critical cases as well as Today’s infected, deaths, recoveries, average infected population, death rate, and recovery rate. these facts are taken from the web.

4. Original Data Summary

Original Data Summary

Observations

This is the original data summary that is taken from Kaggle. This dashboard shows the Confirmed cases, deaths, recoveries, cumulative test, and a positive test, and infection rate with respect to tests by date.

5. Infection Spread with respect to population

Infection Spread with respect to population

Observations

This Dashboard is showing population, confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries with respect to provinces and average infected population and average death rate in all provinces of Pakistan.

6. Cumulative Cases, deaths and Recovered

Cumulative cases, deaths, and recoveries by date and in Punjab and Sindh

Cumulative cases, deaths, and recoveries in KPK, Balochistan, and Islamabad

Observations

It represents the cumulative confirmed cases, Deaths, and recoveries by Date and provinces including Punjab and Sindh. It is also giving an overview of the COVID-19 situation in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the capital territory of Pakistan.

7. Patients Records, Recovery prospects and NIH Response and preparation against COVID-19 Outbreak

Patients Records, and Recovery prospects

Observations

This dashboard is showing records of total admitted patients, stable, critical, and patients on a ventilator by date. it also presents the confirmed cases, and recovery prospect of COVID-19 patients by using date.

NIH Response and preparation against COVID-19 Outbreak

This dashboard shows the average deaths and recovery rate with respect to provinces and the response and preparation of the National Institute of Health, Pakistan against the outbreak of Covid-19 in the country.

8. Covid-19 condition in capital cities of Pakistan

Covid-19 condition in Islamabad

Covid-19 condition in Karachi and Lahore

Covid-19 condition in Peshawar and Quetta

Observations

It is representing the COVID-19 situation in Islamabad capital territory. This Dashboard is showing confirmed cases, Active cases, recovery rate, and virus reduction rate in the top two big cities of Pakistan. It represents the situation of COVID-19 in the other two big and provincial capital cities of Pakistan.

9. Covid-19 Transmission in provinces of Pakistan

Covid-19 Transmission in Punjab and Sindh

Covid-19 Transmission in KPK and Balochistan

Covid-19 Transmission in Islamabad

Observations

This dashboard represents the COVID-19 transmission in all provinces of Pakistan including Islamabad. It also shows the COVID-19 condition of major cities of respective provinces. pie charts are used for this purpose because these are very suitable for data that has 3 to 5 categories.

10. · Confirmed cases, Deaths and recoveries by Date

Confirmed cases, Deaths, and recoveries by Date

Observations

It represents the Confirmed cases, deaths, Recovered, population immunity, and risk to the population by date in the Table. The Map is presenting the above mention figures by provinces of Pakistan.

10. Facilities for Covid-19 patients in Pakistan

Facilities for Covid-19 patients in Pakistan

Observations

The Bar Chart is representing the number of hospitals and beds for COVID-19 Patients by Province. While the map is showing the Temporary Isolation centers (Schools, colleges, or hostels that are converted to Quarantine Centers), the capacity of these centers, and their locations in the whole country.

11. Predictions and Forecasting of new cases, deaths, & recoveries in Pakistan

Forecasting of new cases

Forecasting of new Deaths and Recoveries

Observations

These line charts are used to predict the situation of COVID-19 in Pakistan for the next 15 days. The first chart is forecasting the new Covid-19 cases for the next two weeks. The shaded area represents the forecast. the second chart is predicting the deaths and third one is predicting the patient recoveries of next two weeks.

12. Disclaimer

Disclaimer

Observations

This is the disclaimer of the visualizations that have data resources and helpline to help COVID-19 patients. it shows sites including kaggle.com, covid.gov.pk, and corona.help. It has the link of national health advisory and helpline 1126 for COVID-19 patients.

How power BI helps us to solve problems?

One of the most useful Power BI solutions is the ability to easily search for data and datasets. Power BI allows IT members to publish data catalogs for others to view. This makes it easier for you to find the data sets needed to perform an analysis. Power BI is Microsoft’s very own on-premise, cloud, and mobile offering easily connecting to files, databases and online services for self-managed business intelligence. Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights.” Centered in the secure, streamlined power of cloud computing, Power BI allows you to access, interpret, implement, and communicate your company’s crucial information. this advanced software system can Make your data instantly accessible., Prepare for high-stakes presentations. And Measure your success.

My favorite feature in Power BI.

All the features of Power BI are exactly similar to the features of Microsoft PowerPoint. So, it is very easy to use and understand. For some other visualization tools, we have to use different software for data cleaning but Power BI itself gives us the facility to do data cleaning. So, we don’t need any other software for data cleaning. It also provides filter options that help us to make the desired visualization. Drag and drop in Power BI are so easy. It allows us to transform data at every stage. We can transform data at any time. We can change datatypes using power bi. The ability to make format changes to individual visuals, like turning markers on for line charts and modifying the placement of data labels, allows people to create custom format changes so that they are more visually appealing and easier for dashboard viewers to follow. It facilitates us to change the size of the page that helps us to make a number of visualizations on a single page.

Conclusion:

Covid-19 is seriously affecting Pakistan. Pakistan is in the third face of Coronavirus, but it has limited facilities to tackle the virus. Power BI is a powerful visualization tool that helps us to understand the whole condition. Pakistan’s COVID-19 visualizations try to cover all the important aspects of the dataset using dashboards to represent the situation of Covid-19 in overall country, provinces, and cities.

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