While help is still on the way, it is still important to track a country’s progress to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

But the lack of single platform providing the necessary data in Indonesia poses a challenge to do just that. The relevant data, such as consumer confidence and confirmed cases and deaths, are publicly accessible but are scattered across several websites.

Using R, I developed in early November a website that I hope can overcome that challenge. By aggregating the data on one platform, the website seeks to serve as a sort of recovery tracker for not only the economy but also the public health.

You can visit the tracker at https://dzulfiqarfr.github.io/indonesia-recovery-tracker/

I use R Markdown to build the website. To create the interactive graphs, I use Plotly through the plotly package. I also use the gt package to create the tables on the website.

The indicators are as follow:

• Gross domestic product (GDP);
• Inflation;
• Unemployment rate;
• Poverty rate;
• Consumer confidence;
• Retail sales;
• Movement trends;
• Confirmed cases and deaths; and
• Coronavirus tests

The website does not cover all available economic and public health indicators, but I try to make sure it has timely and relevant data to see how the country is doing as the pandemic unfolds.

I may add another indicator to the website in the future, if necessary.

The website is still far from perfect. So if you have any suggestions or find a bug, please let me know!

---

Tracking Indonesia’s economic recovery from COVID-19 was first posted on December 9, 2020 at 6:39 am.
©2020 “R-posts.com“. Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at tal.galili@gmail.com