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cord-288264-xs08g2cy	Ulahannan, Jijo Pulickiyil	A citizen science initiative for open data and visualization of COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala, India	2020-08-06		.txt	text/plain	3123	169	45	MATERIALS AND METHODS: Through a citizen science initiative, we leveraged publicly available and crowd-verified data on COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala from the government bulletins and media outlets to generate reusable datasets. RESULTS: From the sourced data, we provided real-time analysis, and daily updates of COVID-19 cases in Kerala, through a user-friendly bilingual dashboard (https://covid19kerala.info/) for non-specialists. CONCLUSION: We reported a citizen science initiative on the COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala to collect and deposit data in a structured format, which was utilized for visualizing the outbreak trend and describing demographic characteristics of affected individuals. Here, we report a citizen science initiative to leverage publicly available data on COVID-19 cases in Kerala from the daily bulletins released by the DHS, Government of Kerala, and various news outlets. The multi-sourced data was refined to make a structured live dataset to provide real-time analysis and daily updates of COVID-19 cases in Kerala through a bilingual (English and Malayalam) user-friendly dashboard (https://covid19kerala.info/).	./cache/cord-288264-xs08g2cy.txt	./txt/cord-288264-xs08g2cy.txt