This project is inspired by Alex Freberg’s Data Analyst Portfolio Project. The purpose of this project is to explore the global data on COVID-19 deaths and vaccinations from the perspective a data analyst.
Quick Links:
The dataset is publicly available here.
The original dataset is split into 2 CSV files including:
CovidDeaths- It provides data on global COVID-19 cases and deathsCovidVaccinations- It provides data on global COVID-19 vaccinations
I used Microsoft SQL Server to analyze the data then created a dashboard in Tableau.
After importing the dataset into SQL, I started my first SQL query on the two tables. The following two queries gave an overall view of all records in the tables ordered by location and date.
SELECT *
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
ORDER BY location, date;SELECT *
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidVaccinations
ORDER BY location, date;
I focused on the table CovidDeaths first. Hence, I selected some key variables from this table including location, date, total_cases, new_cases, total_deaths, population for further calculations.
SELECT location, date, total_cases, new_cases, total_deaths, population
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
ORDER BY location, date;
3.1 Calculate the COVID death rate
In order to know the percentage of COVID death rate, I divided the total_deaths by the total_cases . At first, I input the following query.
SELECT location, date, total_cases, total_deaths,
(total_deaths/total_cases)*100 AS death_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY location, date;But the result showed “Operand data type varchar is invalid for divide operator”. It indicated that one of the operands involved in the divide operation is of type VARCHAR, which is a string data type and cannot be used in arithmetic operations like division. Therefore, I needed to CONVERT both operands into FLOAT which is a numeric data type.
Also, I used NULLIF to handle this case where total_cases is 0, preventing division by zero. If total_cases is 0, NULLIF returns NULL, which causes the division to result in NULL rather than an error.
Below is the new query.
SELECT location, date, total_cases, total_deaths,
(CONVERT(FLOAT, total_deaths)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, total_cases), 0))*100 AS death_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY location, date;
3.2 Calculate the COVID infection rate by population
SELECT location, date, population, total_cases,
(CONVERT(FLOAT, total_cases)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, population), 0))*100 AS infection_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY location, date;
3.3 Calculate the highest infection count and the highest infection rate by population
SELECT location, population,
MAX(CONVERT (FLOAT, total_cases)) AS highest_infection_count,
MAX((CONVERT(FLOAT, total_cases)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, population), 0)))*100 AS highest_infection_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY location, population
ORDER BY highest_infection_rate DESC;
3.4 Calculate the highest death count and the highest death rate by population
SELECT location,
MAX(CONVERT (FLOAT, total_deaths)) AS highest_death_count,
MAX((CONVERT(FLOAT, total_deaths)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, population), 0)))*100 AS highest_death_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY location
ORDER BY highest_death_rate DESC;
4.1 Calculate the highest infection count and rate and the highest death count and rate by population
SELECT continent,
MAX(CONVERT(FLOAT, total_cases)) AS highest_infection_count,
MAX(CONVERT(FLOAT, total_deaths)) AS highest_death_count,
MAX((CONVERT(FLOAT, total_cases)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, population), 0)))*100 AS highest_infection_rate,
MAX((CONVERT(FLOAT, total_deaths)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, population), 0)))*100 AS highest_death_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY continent
ORDER BY highest_death_rate DESC;
5.1 Calculate the total new cases, the total new deaths and the death percentage
SELECT date,
SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_cases)) AS total_new_cases,
SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_deaths)) AS total_new_deaths,
(SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_deaths))/SUM(NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_cases),0)))*100 AS death_perc
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY date
ORDER BY date;
6.1 Calculate the rolling vaccinations by location and date
I used JOIN statement to join CovidDeaths and CovidVaccinations together.
The query below calculated a rolling sum of new vaccinations for each location, where the sum restarts for each location and the ordering is based on the date within each location.
SELECT dea.continent, dea.location, dea.date, dea.population, vac.new_vaccinations,
SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT,vac.new_vaccinations)) OVER (PARTITION BY dea.location ORDER BY dea.location,dea.date) AS rolling_vaccinations
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths AS dea
JOIN PortfolioProject..CovidVaccinations AS vac
ON dea.location = vac.location
AND dea.date = vac.date
WHERE dea.continent IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY dea.location, dea.date;
6.2 Calculate the rolling vaccinations and the vaccination rate by population
-- Use CTE
WITH PopvsVac
AS
(
SELECT dea.continent, dea.location, dea.date, dea.population, vac.new_vaccinations,
SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT,vac.new_vaccinations)) OVER (PARTITION BY dea.location ORDER BY dea.location,dea.date) AS rolling_vaccinations
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths AS dea
JOIN PortfolioProject..CovidVaccinations AS vac
ON dea.location = vac.location
AND dea.date = vac.date
WHERE dea.continent IS NOT NULL
)
SELECT *, (CONVERT(FLOAT, rolling_vaccinations)/NULLIF((CONVERT(FLOAT, population)), 0))*100 AS vac_rate
FROM PopvsVac;
6.3 Create TEMP TABLE
The following query created a temp table to achieve the same outcome as the previous query.
-- Create TEMP TABLE
Create TEMP TABLE
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #Population_Vaccinated_Rate;
CREATE TABLE #Population_Vaccinated_Rate
(
continent NVARCHAR(255),
location NVARCHAR(255),
date NVARCHAR(255),
population FLOAT,
new_vaccinations FLOAT,
rolling_vaccinations FLOAT
);
-- Insert into TEMP TABLE
INSERT INTO #Population_Vaccinated_Rate
SELECT dea.continent, dea.location, dea.date, dea.population,vac.new_vaccinations,
SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, vac.new_vaccinations)) OVER (PARTITION BY dea.location ORDER BY dea.location, dea.date) AS rolling_vaccinations
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths AS dea
JOIN PortfolioProject..CovidVaccinations AS vac
ON dea.location = vac.location
AND dea.date = vac.date
WHERE dea.continent IS NOT NULL;-- Calculate vaccination rate by population
SELECT *,
(CONVERT(FLOAT, rolling_vaccinations) / NULLIF((CONVERT(FLOAT, population)), 0)) * 100 AS vac_rate
FROM #Population_Vaccinated_Rate;
Following Alex’s instruction, I modified 4 queries from the above analysis to prepare data for visualization. The results were then saved into 4 separate Excel files.
1.1 Calculate the total new cases, the total new deaths and the death percentage worldwide
SELECT SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_cases)) AS total_new_cases,
SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_deaths)) AS total_new_deaths,
(SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_deaths))/SUM(NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_cases),0)))*100 AS death_perc
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL;
1.2 Calculate the total death count per continent
SELECT continent,
SUM(CONVERT(FLOAT, new_deaths)) AS total_death_count
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
AND location not IN ('World', 'European Union', 'International')
GROUP BY continent
ORDER BY total_death_count DESC;
1.3 Calculate the highest infection count and the highest infection rate by population
SELECT location, population,
MAX(CONVERT (FLOAT, total_cases)) AS highest_infection_count,
MAX((CONVERT(FLOAT, total_cases)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, population), 0)))*100 AS highest_infection_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY location, population
ORDER BY highest_infection_rate DESC;
After saving the result to Excel file, I replaced all NULL values in this table with 0, which is a numeric data type, to ensure Tableau interpreted the data correctly and avoided mistaking NULL values for strings.
1.4 Calculate the daily highest infection count and the highest infection rate by population
SELECT location, population, date,
MAX(CONVERT (FLOAT, total_cases)) AS highest_infection_count,
MAX((CONVERT(FLOAT, total_cases)/NULLIF(CONVERT(FLOAT, population), 0)))*100 AS highest_infection_rate
FROM PortfolioProject..CovidDeaths
WHERE continent IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY location, population, date
ORDER BY highest_infection_rate DESC;
I also replaced all NULL values in this table with 0 before importing to Tableau.
I imported four Excel files to Tableau for data visualization.
Below is my final dashboard. You can also view it here.
