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Assignment: World map of COVID-19

Task

Your task is to make a chloropleth map visualizing COVID-19 cases worldwide. The countries of the world should be displayed in the Albers equal area projection. The number of cases in each country should be indicated by a reasonable color scale (of your choice).

Please submit three files:

1. A .png image file of the chloropleth map using the latest available data on the submission day.
2. A .py python file (not jupyter notebook) which generated your .png image file.
3. A .mp4 movie file containing an animation of the choloropleth maps from 01/22/2020 through the latest date of the data and a .py python file that you used for creating the animation.

Hints

• The last task of making the mp4 movie file is harder than the other two. Begin with the easier tasks.
• An example of a chloropleth map is in the Overview lecture.
• We have already seen the Albers equal area projection in the lecture Visualizing geospatial data.
• For animation, use your experience from the exercise on animations.
• Use the Johns Hopkins dataset.

An example solution with data until May 7, 2020, can be seen in the output of the next code cell if you are reading this in a jupyter notebook.

from IPython.display import Video
Video("../figs/covidworldmapanim.mp4")

Alternately, the same solution video can be downloaded or visualized at this weblink.