Question

Q. Building on the simple WordCount example done in class and Hadoop tutorial, your task is to perform simple processing on provided COVID-19 dataset. Count the total number of reported cases for every country/location till April 8th, 2020

(NOTE: There data does contain case rows for Dec 2019, you will have to filter that data)

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With the massive disruption of the current COVID-19 pandemic, many data engineers and data scientists are asking themselves “How can the data community help?” The data community is already doing some amazing work in a short amount of time including (but certainly not limited to) one of the most commonly used COVID-19 data sources: the 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE. The following animated GIF is a visual representation of the proportional number of confirmed cases (counties) and deaths (circles) spanning from March 22nd to April 14th.