Deaths in German data are by reporting date of case, not death about covidregionaldata HOT 7 CLOSED

Thanks also from me @jbracher - very glad you spotted this!

@seabbs - I think we should by default return deaths by date of death, since the rest of the package is aiming to be as user-friendly and analysis-ready as possible. Then include an option to return RKI data as-is (by date of case report), with a warning. Let me know what you think, I'll work on this today.

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@kathsherratt agreed. Just needs to be flagged clearly in the docs (and the source for the updated reports etc for credit).

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Sorry for the late reply. There is no reference to our data other than the github repo. But you should also mention the RKI dashboard and the repo https://github.com/ard-data/2020-rki-archive from which we obtained the data snapshots from before we started getting them directly from RKI.

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Thanks for this @jbracher,

Really helpful stuff. The install issues should now be cleaned up and we think everything is in pretty good shape (apart from this RKI data issue you have flagged).

There is a bit of a conflict here between supporting more "official" data sources and supporting data sources that are actually useful (i.e yours). Perhaps we can add a logical switch and some documentation for the German data. What do you think @kathsherratt?

Sam

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I see Sam's point about sticking to the official data sources. If you decide to optionally read data from our repo please let me know. To be fully transparent, we have had some issues with our automatic updates recently (which we could correct thanks to https://github.com/ard-data/2020-rki-archive). In any case I agree that sone informative message should be printed when reading the German data.

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I think we will be adding this as an option (likely the default) with an informative message indicating what is being output. Good to know about the issues with the updates - it is a fairly common theme with these regional datasets as many of them are quite hard to collect. In terms of linking to your data source is the github link the best pointer or is there a citation to also mention?

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