An Interactive Dashboard for Monitoring the Spread of COVID-19 in Sudan

With the global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), continuous monitoring of the outbreak became crucial for making informed and accurate decisions regarding the pandemic. In Sudan, the Federal Ministry of Health reports the COVID-19 situation through nonelectronic paper-based reports published on their official website and Facebook page. These reports lack adequate data representation and visualization, which imposes a real challenge for monitoring COVID-19 status. In this paper, an interactive dashboard was designed to monitor the status of COVID-19 in Sudan. It helps the public and health authorities to view the real situation in a comprehensive, simple, and visually appealing manner. The dashboard was designed using Tableau (the public version). Furthermore, a visual analysis for the COVID-19 situation in Sudan from 18 March 2020 till 5 September 2020 was conducted to track the patterns and trends of the outbreak in Sudan. The resulted dashboard and the visual analysis provide important insights that can be used to make informed decisions concerning the spread of COVID-19 in Sudan.