Curcumin vs Chloroquine in Coronavirus Global Pandemic: Trend analysis Study in Google

Abstract

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the newly discovered corona virus. Curcumin and Chloroquine
are one of the medications to combat against the pandemic. This paper has objective to analyze the trends
inside the use of Chloroquine and Curcumin as medical treatment against corona in global big data. This
study uses quantitative method of data mining design in collecting the data. This study uses simple random
sampling to determine the number of the population needed for this study. This study uses Google trends
to gather the statistical result based on the keyword. The result shows that curcumin is more popular to
be searched as information in bigdata. USA is the country with the biggest demand of information about
curcumin, as seen on the number of queries variation as well as the relevance score. It can be concluded that
information about curcumin has demanded more because of low side effect than chloroquine.