This program uses world health organization data to analyze trends in mortality rates. Although this is not novel in nature it does give insight into my current python programming ability and data processing skills. author: Nathanael Bowley (github @nathanbowley98) course: NESC3505 source: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide retrieved 10/30/2020 version 2: retrieved 12/18/2020

Do we have any null or na values? How many?

We need to remove the null / na values, we can do this with df.dropna()

Rechecking dataframe head and how many null / na values

I want to see cases:deaths ratios for each country each day to see if certain countries had or have a higher death ratio trend:

get all the areas in the data

Recursive method to get all the countries while being faster than a for loop