  The Coronavirus, also known as the COVID-19 virus, has emerged in Wuhan China
since late November 2019. Since that time, it has been spreading at large-scale
until today all around the world. It is currently recognized as the world's
most viral and severe epidemic spread in the last twenty years, as compared to
Ebola 2014, MERS 2012, and SARS 2003. Despite being still in the middle of the
outbreak, there is an urgent need to understand the impact of COVID-19. The
objective is to clarify how it was spread so fast in a short time worldwide in
unprecedented fashion. This paper represents a first initiative to achieve this
goal, and it provides a comprehensive analytical study about the Coronavirus.
The contribution of this paper consists in providing descriptive and predictive
models that give insights into COVID-19 impact through the analysis of
extensive data updated daily for the outbreak in all countries. We aim at
answering several open questions: How does COVID-19 spread around the world?
What is its impact in terms of confirmed and death cases at the continent,
region, and country levels? How does its severity compare with other epidemic
outbreaks, including Ebola 2014, MERS 2012, and SARS 2003? Is there a
correlation between the number of confirmed cases and death cases? We present a
comprehensive analytics visualization to address the questions mentioned above.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic analytical papers
that pave the way towards a better understanding of COVID-19. The analytical
dashboards and collected data of this study are available online [1].
