Sonification of Covid-Data

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Hello community,
I've searched this forum a bit, but I couldn't find much about what I am trying to learn. In the end, I want to create a musical piece to sonificate Covid-Data (https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data), which is available as JSON, XSLSX or CSV Files.
I'm pretty advanced with generative graphics and visual programming, but I know nothing about max. I just bought ableton and it's a complete new world to me. Existing and frightening. That's the usual problem: I don't even know, what I should know ;-) Can you help me creating a learning path that will eventuelly get me to that sonification-goal?
Thanks in advance.